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Part I ✦ SUSE Linux Basics
The left panel of the package selection screen gives a broad overview of packages
and disk space used, and also indicates how much space will be required when
installing all selected packages.
The Filter drop-down list box provides a powerful way to limit what packages you
can select. As we stated in the Introduction, we ourselves differ on our views of a
few Linux idiosyncrasies, including text, desktop environments, and also Linux on
the desktop in general. SUSE is aware of differing views throughout the whole Linux
community, and therefore using package selections enables users to specify things
such as which desktop environment and editor they want to install—why waste
disk space if you’re not going to use something? The same is true for games, multi-
media, and specific server software. The amount of disk space required to install
your system can be reduced or enhanced by selecting specific packages.
We will keep the default package selection as chosen by SUSE and add a new pack-
age that is not installed by default.
Selecting Search from the drop-down list box enables you to enter search criteria for
a package and returns all results based on the Search in criteria selected. Figure 1-16
shows a search for the Blackbox window manager. As you can see, YaST returned not
only the package Blackbox but also other packages that contain the word blackbox in
their summary definitions, which can be seen in the Description window.
Figure 1-16: Searching for individual packages
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