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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.

Other package managers

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