topic Re: YAST for Suse and what for RHL? in Operating System - Linux

YAST for Suse and what for RHL?

Cron — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:08:38 GMT

A customer recently has installed RHL, she was working with Suse got used to use YAST. Now she wants to know if it is an utility in RHL that works as YAST does in Suse.

What do you know about it?

Thanks,

Javier

Re: YAST for Suse and what for RHL?

Ragu_3 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:19:37 GMT

In RHL you have tools like 'rhnupdate' and 'yum'. 'yum --help' or 'man yum' gives you more info.

Re: YAST for Suse and what for RHL?

Jimmy Vance — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:34:44 GMT

Red Hat does not have a tool with YAST like functionality

Re: YAST for Suse and what for RHL?

Maaz — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:04:05 GMT

I do agree with Jimmy Vance, YaST is so cool/good, esp YaST's Package Manager is far much better then redhat's.

Re: YAST for Suse and what for RHL?

Ivan Ferreira — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:15:29 GMT

Agree that YAST is a great tool. For red hat, you don't have a central tool. You do have system-config-* tools. Also, you can use other tools like webmin.

Re: YAST for Suse and what for RHL?

Cron — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:59:33 GMT

Thanks to everyone of you!

That's right RHL doesn't have a central tool as Suse, so it's not as "friendly" as many people would like it to be.

We finally had to do a cold install and then select all the packages our customer needed. It was the fastest way to get the server ready. The other way, resolving all the dependencies by hand, would take so much time.

Regards,

Javier

Re: YAST for Suse and what for RHL?

Jeeshan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:44:51 GMT

yes, a bit true.

But you can use YUM to resolve dependency from RHEL 5.

Re: YAST for Suse and what for RHL?

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:22:44 GMT

Shalom,

HP-UX has sam, Suse has yast.

No equivalent with RHL.

But taken together the system-config tools really do provide everything you need to administer a system.

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