Adding software in YaST

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In older versions of YaST software management it would prompt you to add
more packages after you installed something. That behavior went away in
11.0 IIRC, but there was discussion about making it a toggled option. I
recently went from 10.3 to 11.2 and miss that feature. How can I enable
it in 11.2?

Thanks…

…Kevin

Kevin Miller - http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
In a recent survey, 7 out of 10 hard drives preferred Linux
Registered Linux User No: 307357, http://counter.li.org

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Hi
Yes you can re enable. YaST -> System -> /etc/sysconfig Editor and go
to System - YaSt2 - GUI and at the end of the list there is the
variable “PKMGR_ACTION_AT_EXIT” You can set either summary, close or
restart. You would want restart or summary.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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On 11/17/2009 06:55 PM, malcolmlewis wrote:
>

> Hi
> Yes you can re enable. YaST -> System -> /etc/sysconfig Editor and go
> to System - YaSt2 - GUI and at the end of the list there is the
> variable “PKMGR_ACTION_AT_EXIT” You can set either summary, close or
> restart. You would want restart or summary.

Perfect, thanks much…

–
Kevin Miller - http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
In a recent survey, 7 out of 10 hard drives preferred Linux
Registered Linux User No: 307357, http://counter.li.org

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Thanks Malcolm, that for me is THE killer feature of 11.2!

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Very cool! :good:

I always found it to be very annoying that the package manager closed itself without asking me first.

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Great info. Thanks so much.