Package Management/Tools

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Tools for package management

For comparison how to use different command line tools, see Software Management Command Line Comparison

YaST Software Management

The YaST Software Management module is the software installer that most users will use and like.

rug

rug is a command line frontend to ZMD. See using rug to learn more about this tool.

y2pmsh

From openSUSE 10.2 on, y2pmsh is replaced by zypper

See the page about y2pmsh for documentation on y2pmsh.

zypper

zypper is the new official command line package manager replacing y2pmsh and rug.

smart

smart is a relative young software installation tool. The goal of smart is to solve adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation. So exactly what RPM isn't doing.

apt4rpm

apt4rpm is a descendant of the apt package management tool used in the Debian Linux distribution. With .deb Debian has its own packaging format, thus apt4rpm is an adaption of apt to RPM. Installation of APT is easy on openSUSE. Please go to http://en.opensuse.org/APT for instructions on using APT with openSUSE 10.3!