Quick Start Guide

To mark a package for installation, re-installation, removal, or upgrade, right-
click the package and choose the appropriate action from the menu.
TIP: Applying an Action to All Packages Listed
To apply an action to all packages listed in the right pane, right-click a
package, choose Select All, right-click again and choose an action.
3 To install a pattern, right-click the pattern name and choose Install.
4 It is not possible to remove a pattern per se. Instead, select the packages of
a pattern you want to remove and mark them for removal.
5 In order to select more packages, repeat the steps mentioned above.
6 Before applying your changes, you can review or modify them by clicking
View All Changes at the bottom of the dialog. By default, all packages that
will change status are listed.
7 To revert changes for a package, click the Undo icon with the yellow arrow.
To nish the review, click Close.
8 When you are nished with the selection of packages to install or remove,
Apply your changes.
9 In case YaST found dependencies on other packages, a list of packages that
have additionally been chosen for installation, update or removal is presented.
Click Apply to accept them.
After all selected packages are installed, updated or removed, the YaST Soft-
ware Manager automatically terminates.
NOTE: Installing Source Packages
Installing source packages with YaST Software Manager is not possible at the
moment. Use the command line tool zypper for this purpose. For more information,
see Section 9.1.2.1, “Installing Source Packages” (page 114).
5.3.3 Updating Packages
Instead of updating individual packages, you can also update all installed packages
or all packages from a certain repository. When mass updating packages, the following
aspects are generally considered:
• priorities of the repositories that provide the package,
• architecture of the package (for example, x86_64, i686, i586),
• version number of the package,
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