SuSE Package Management (was Re: SENDMAIL - HELP - SUSE)

[Jim Herrmann]

YAST has ncurses capability.  Actually, I think it started there, and 
later added the GUI.

http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/ch03.html

Enjoy,
Jim

Dave Hull wrote:

>Quoting Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>:
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>>SuSE's package management is much less flexible than the other distros; in
>>the 9.x and later releases you can only use the GUI interface.  (There's
>>always straight RPM, but that doesn't fetch dependencies for you.)
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>I haven't tried SuSE... yet, but this is interesting. Is there no way to do a
>command-line only install with no X system? If so, does the package management
>system use ncurses or something or similar?
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>If it's really not possible to have a text based SuSE install, then I probably
>won't bother trying it out. I prefer to keep my servers lean and mean. The less
>crap I can install on a box the better.
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