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

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Thank You so much.

Can you please help me understand the equivalent of regular repos and ppa's
in Ubuntu with SLES ?

-Narahari



On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> "rpm -ivh file.rpm" attempts the installation, but gives no dependency
> resolution beyond telling you which dependencies are missing.
>
> "yast -i file.rpm" will attempt dependency resolution
>
> "yast sw_single" will give a menu driven system to search, install,
> remove, etc..  packages from installed packages and available repos.
>
> zypper is a commandline utility that can be used to do most everything
> that the above menu driven system can do (zypper search, zypper
> list-updates, zypper install, zypper update, etc..)
>
> Allen B.
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
> ________________________________
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Narahari 'n'
> Savitha [savithari at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:04 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> 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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