What is all this?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 15:36 pm, Lee wrote:
> Just tracked down a dealer in Texas who had 60 copies of SUSe Linux
> 7.3 OEM at $5. Too good a deal to pass up. I bought 5. Found 7 install
> and one dvd in the package. More to test the cd/dvd combo reader I
> installed the SUSe on a twenty gig partition of a 60gig box I'm
> building. Now the question. I told the install program to load
> everything (5.9gig). During the install the package name and a brief
> summery flashed by. I notivced an awful lot of interesting things, but
> had no way of recording their names. Is there any piece of
> literature/book that lists these packages and what they do. The manual
> pages only work if you have package name.
>
> Lee

Guess your not that familiar with SuSE.

The best way to look through all the packages is to use YAST2 (once 
installed  or even during the install) and the software add/remove 
section.

There, divided into categories of software (games, etc) you will find all 
the packages listed in their categories, and if you click on the 
description box, it will give a brief description of each.

You can also use the 'search' function to search for things, such as 
gimp, moon, earth, etc...  to find various packages dealing with the 
search arg.




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