Package Management/Tools

From openSUSE

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.

zypper

zypper is the official command line package manager, replacing the old tools y2pmsh and rug since openSUSE 10.2.

rug

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

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.