[ale] zypper vs yast2 vs rpm installs on SLES/Open Suse

[splante at insightsys.com (Scott Plante)]

Allen mostly answered this, but also note that /sbin/yast is a symbolic link to /sbin/yast2. 

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From: "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 9:04:21 PM 
Subject: [ale] zypper vs yast2 vs rpm installs on SLES/Open Suse 












Friends: 

What is the difference between 

zypper 

yast2 

yast 

rpm 

based installs ? 

When to use what and what are pure command line options ? 

For example if Firewall had to allow certain services I could not do it in one line. I had to navigate menus to do it. 

Also comparing to Ubuntu, there are the regular repos and the ppa's. Isnt there a similar concept in SLES / Open SUSE ? 

Can we mix and match repos between SLES and OpenSuse ? and what about between minor version say between 11.1 and 11.4 ? 

-Narahari 

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