Documentation/Package Management

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General information

On modern Linux distributions like openSUSE, software installation is best done with a package manager. The package manager gets software packages from repositories (online servers, CDs, DVDs etc.) and installs them on your system. The package manager also makes it easy to remove packages later or to update them. The number of packages available for installation depends on which repositories you have added.

Packages can require functionality of other software packages. The package manager will try to manage these dependencies, but conflicts can occur that require user interaction.

openSUSE uses packages in the RPM format. You should only install RPMs that are built specifically for your version of openSUSE.

For more information, see Package Management.

Package Management

openSUSE package management

• YaST Software Management - Install, remove and update software
• YaST Online Update (YOU) - Installation of official updates (security or bugfix patches)
• Add Package Repositories to YaST - Make more software available for easy installation
• Using zypper - Package management with the command line interface
• Updater Applet - Notification of updates for KDE and GNOME users

The native openSUSE package manager use the Libzypp backend technology.

ZENworks

ZENworks was included by default in openSUSE 10.1, 10.2. It was replaced by Libzypp in openSUSE 10.3 and beyond.

Other package managers

• Smart Package Manager
• Yum
• apt4rpm
• y2pmsh (deprecated)

See also

• Official Repositories
• Additional Package Repositories
• Mirror

External Links

• openSUSE-Community Package Management 101
• openSUSE Build Service Software Search
• Webpin Software Search