08-14-2006
I voted SUSE, because out of all the other distributions, it was geared for both ease of use and bad-to-da-core development. I love YaST and it's unique way of managing hardware and software for Linux.
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YAST2(8) System configuration YAST2(8)
NAME
YaST2 - universal configuration utility
SYNOPSIS
yast2 [ options ] [ module ] [ module specific options ]
yast2 --install <package> [ <package> [ ... ] ]
DESCRIPTION
YaST2 is used to configure the system. It can configure a common hardware (sound cards, printers, keyboards, mice), network connections
(network cards, ISDN cards, modems, DSL connections), network clients and services (NFS, NIS), as well as a general system options (lan-
guage, partitioning, software, bootloader).
YaST2 comes with three frontends: GTK , QT and ncurses. All frontends are functionally equivalent. The correct frontend is selected auto-
matically based on the available components and the current environment (the DISPLAY variable).
Use yast2 alone to launch the YaST2 Control Center from which you can select a particular configuration module or use yast2 <module> to
launch the module directly.
OPTIONS
--qt Run YaST in the QT graphical frontend
--gtk Run YaST in the GTK graphical frontend
--ncurses
Run YaST in the ncurses text-mode frontend
-g, --geometry
Default window size (QT frontend only).
-h, --help
Print a usage and exit.
-i, --install <package> [ <package> [ ... ] ]
Install an RPM package. The package can be a single short package name (e.g. gvim) which will be installed with dependency checking,
or the full path to an rpm package (e.g /tmp/gvim.rpm) which will be installed without dependency checking.
--remove <package> [ <package> [ ... ] ]
Remove an RPM package. The package can be short package names (e.g. gvim) which will be removed with dependency checking.
-l, --list
List all available modules. To obtain usage info about a module, use "yast module help".
MODULES WITH COMMAND LINE INTERFACE
This is a list of YaST modules currently supporting command line interface:
answering_machine, bootloader, ca_mgm, dhcp-server, dns, dns-server, fax, firewall, groups, host, http-server, idedma, inetd, irda, ker-
beros-client, keyboard, lan, language, ldap, mail, mouse, nfs, nfs_server, nis, nis_server, ntp-client, power-management, powertweak,
printer, profile-manager, proxy, remote, routing, runlevel, samba-client, samba-server, security, sound, sysconfig, tftp-server, timezone,
tv, users
To obtain a list of basic commands for using a YaST module with support for command line interface, use:
yast2 module help
To get more comprehensive information about the commands available for a YaST module, use:
yast2 module longhelp
To get information about the commands available for a YaST module in a XML formatted file, use:
yast2 module xmlhelp xmlfile= <filename>
To get information about a specific command of a YaST module, use:
yast2 module command help
To start an interactive console in which you can execute commands of a YaST module, use
yast2 module interactive
FILES
/var/log/YaST2/*
Logs
/etc/sysconfig/yast2, $HOME/.yast2/yast2
Configures the preferred GUI.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful program execution.
1 Too few arguments.
5 Error in arguments.
16 Generic module error.
> 16 Module specific error codes.
AUTHOR
Michal Svec <msvec@suse.cz> - manual page
Jakub Friedl <jfriedl@suse.cz> - manual page
SEE ALSO
Documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2*.
yast2 January 2003 YAST2(8)