Yast is an administrator tool that allows administrators to install patches, add or delete users, etc.
Yet Another Setup Tool = YaST for SUSE Linux
Level 2. Page 643 in your COMPTIA's Linux + book.
yast -l
Most Linux distributions do not use graphical installers for each individual program, so there is no equivalent in Linux. Programs are downloaded and installed through a single interface, be it Synaptic, YaST, apt, and so on.
Yes:Redhat and friends: up2date; or yum updateSuSE: YaST updateDebian and friends: apt-get update; apt-get upgradeGentoo: emerge world # (I think)
1. Click the green gecko. 2. Select System > YaST 3. Enter your password 4. Click "Software" 5. Enter "apache" in the search box 6. Select "apache2" from the list. 7. Click Accept.
While SuSE has made a great effort to develop a wonderful configuration tool like Yast, in no way does SuSE restrict or limit the the user to 'have' to use it. There are plenty of confiuration tools that you can use to fiddle with SuSE and all of them work just fine.
Ta so sanga yast? ( Pashto Lanuguage ) mean how are you? ( English Language )
not quite sure why you want to use YUM instead of YaSTbeen using YaST for several years but have to use YUM on CEntOS install, and gaaaawd do i hate it, but, hey, each his own, right?have a look here: http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2005/10/16/setting-up-yum-on-suse-linux-100-3/
DEB-like (Ubuntu, Debian): Synaptic, apt-get RPM-like (Fedora, OpenSuse): YAST, yum Others: Emerge, Sources................
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