How To Get QT zypper GUI in GNOME YAST

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Alrighty, this will be a really short howto, but I would never have known I could do this if it hadn't been mentioned offhand here, and so I figure others might benefit as well.

The discussion at the link above boils down to an opinion that the YAST "Software Management" button under KDE brings up a more usable and functional interface than in GNOME. I now share that opinion, and thanks to this switch I no longer pine for synaptic.

It's super easy.

• As root do "zypper in yast2-qt-pkg" from a terminal session, *OR* use "Software Management" from within YAST to search for and install it.
  
  
• From within YAST, click "/etc/sysconfig Editor" in the "System" section.
  
  
• Expand System-->Yast2-->GUI-->WANTED_GUI
  
  
• Change the setting of WANTED_GUI from auto to qt.
  
  
• Click "Finish", acknowledge any prompts, and you are done.

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I forgot to mention this was done in openSUSE 11.0

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Just to add to this. Because this is a very handy feature if you use Gnome. In Software Management- The feature QT offers which is of great advantage it: 'Update All in this List' and you can choose then either 'If newer version available' or 'Unconditionally'.

I have put a couple of screens to help you see the settings to change.
First make sure the yast2-qt-pkg is installed.



Hope this helps.

[oneinch]

been a little while since I used the QT zypper front end. But if I remember correctly, the QT version is _a lot_ better then the gtk one.