Quick Start Guide

6 Before applying your changes, you can review or modify them by clicking
View > Installation Summary. By default, all packages that will change status,
are listed.
7 In order to revert the status for a package, right-click the package and select
one of the following entries: Keep if the package was scheduled to be deleted
or updated, or Do Not Install if it was scheduled for installation. To abandon
all changes and close the Software Manager, click Cancel and Abandon
8 When you are nished, click Accept to 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 Continue 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).
5.2.3 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,
• package vendor.
Which of the aspects has the highest importance for choosing the update candidates
depends on the respective update option you choose.
1 To update all installed packages to the latest version, choose Package > All
Packages > Update if Newer Version Available from the main menu.
All repositories are checked for possible update candidates, using the following
policy: YaST rst tries to restrict the search to packages with the same archi-
tecture and vendor like the installed one. If the search is positive, the “best”
update candidate from those is selected according to the process below.
However, if no comparable package of the same vendor can be found, the
search is expanded to all packages with the same architecture. If still no
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