[ale] zypper vs yast2 vs rpm installs on SLES/Open Suse

[Beddingfield, Allen]

Yes, there used to be a difference between yast and yast2.  These days there is only one binary, and a symlink for those of us who are in the habit of always typing "yast" instead of the more correct "yast2".  I had a CNI who was teaching SUSE classes arguing with me that I should be running the more modern "yast2" instead of the out of date "yast" he saw me running - he was shocked when I showed him that it is a symlink to the same binary :D
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Scott Plante [splante at insightsys.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:29 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] zypper vs yast2 vs rpm installs on SLES/Open Suse

Allen mostly answered this, but also note that /sbin/yast is a symbolic link to /sbin/yast2.

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From: "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 9:04:21 PM
Subject: [ale] zypper vs yast2 vs rpm installs on SLES/Open Suse

Friends:

What is the difference between

zypper

yast2

yast

rpm

based installs ?

When to use what and what are pure command line options ?

For example if Firewall had to allow certain services I could not do it in one line.  I had to navigate menus to do it.

Also comparing to Ubuntu, there are the regular repos and the ppa's.  Isnt there a similar concept in SLES / Open SUSE ?

Can we mix and match repos between SLES and OpenSuse ? and what about between minor version say between 11.1 and 11.4 ?

-Narahari

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