YaST - A Quick Guide

Is there a good guide showing the features of YaST and how to best use them?

For instance:

  • What’s the difference between Add-On Products and Software Management?
  • To add software, must I add the repo in the Software Repositories area first?
  • Today, when I went to install Dropbox, I used Software Management. I selected the top option for standard Dropbox and pressed install. It proceeded in downloading and installing 360ish packages ranging from LibreOffice stuff to KDE4 wallpapers - what happened there lol?
  • How do you turn Snapper off in YaST?

That’s a few notes

Add-on products are more like you have a propritary program on disk. Software management is for the repositories

Yes you must add a repo if the application is not in one of the standard. Note that you can use one click to install many things see

http://software.opensuse.org/search

If you can’t find an app there you probably will have to compile from source or sweet talk someone to package it for you :wink:

Turning snapper off good question I have not installed 13.2 yet (I always wait until the dust settles). Is supposed to be some where in Yast maybe in the partitioning section??:\

Well I just left snapshots off when I installed 13.2 on my main desktop. I’m guessing you can always go back in and turn Snapper on if you wanted, but I don’t see any reason to do this currently since all my Linux PCs are non-production boxes.

Thank you for that Package Search page, that’s a nice feature lol!