Keeping The System Up-To-Date - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

9.4 Keeping the System Up-to-date

Novell offers a continuous stream of software security patches for your product. The
updater applet informs you about the availability of patches and lets you easily install
them with just a few clicks.
9.4.1 Using the KDE Updater Applet
The updater applet resides in the system tray of your panel depicting the head of the
SUSE mascot (Geeko), which changes depending on the availability and relevance of
patches and the status of the updater. Whenever the icon changes, a tool tip displaying
the current status is shown, too. The applet is started by default. Choose Applications
> System > Desktop Applet > kupdateapplet from the main menu to manually start it.
Green Geeko Head with Green Arrows
No patches available.
Green Geeko Head with Yellow Arrows
The updater applet is busy (for example checking for updates, installing software).
Red Start with Arrow
Security patches available.
Orange Star with Arrow
Important patches are available.
Blue square with Arrow
Trivial patches are available.
Yellow Triangle with Exclamation Mark
An error occurred.
Blue Circle with Question Mark
No update repository is defined. When you click the updater applet in this state,
you are asked whether to check for updates. If you agree, the YaST Online Update
Configuration module is started.
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