Quick Start Guide
Figure 6.1: YaST Online Update—Qt Interface
The Summary section on the left lists the available patches for openSUSE. The
patches are sorted by security relevance: security, recommended, and optional. You
can change the view of the Summary section by selecting one of the following options
from Show Patch Category:
Needed Patches (default view)
Non-installed patches that apply to packages installed on your system.
Unneeded Patches
Patches that either apply to packages not installed on your system, or patches
that have requirements which have already have been fullled (because the rel-
evant packages have already been updated from another source).
All Patches
All patches available for openSUSE.
Each list entry in the Summary section consists of a symbol and the patch name. For
an overview of the possible symbols and their meaning, press [Shift] + [F1]. Actions
required by Security and Recommended patches are automatically preset. These actions
are Autoinstall, Autoupdate and Autodelete.
If you install an up-to-date package from a repository other than the update reposi-
tory, the requirements of a patch for this package may be fullled with this installation.
In this case a check mark is displayed in front of the patch summary. The patch will
be visible in the list until you mark it for installation. This will in fact not install the
patch (because the package already is up-to-date), but mark the patch as having
been installed.
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