Revisiting RPM Package Management [LWN.net]

Revisiting RPM Package Management

Posted Sep 18, 2003 2:41 UTC (Thu) by ladislav (guest, #247)
In reply to: Revisiting RPM Package Management by vblum
Parent article: Revisiting RPM Package Management

SuSE's YaST (or more specifically YOU - YaST Online Update) does indeed resolves dependencies from its own distribution and officially sanctioned updates. However, it does not provide a means to add third party repositories with package updates or other software not supplied by SuSE. As such, you cannot use YaST for updating say KDE to the latest version; you have to do it either manually or install a third-party package management tool, such as apt-get. Please correct me if I am wrong.

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Revisiting RPM Package Management

Posted Sep 18, 2003 9:48 UTC (Thu) by petebull (subscriber, #7857) [Link]

I correct you.

With SuSE-8.2 one can add additional package sources. I have installed
SuSE-8.2 via FTP and later added the installation source for KDE-3.1.3
and Yast2 installed the packages for me.

Have a look at
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/yast-source/