| openSUSE Documentation Chapter 3. Installing or Removing Software / 3.5. Keeping the System Up-to-date | ||||
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 | 3.4. Installing Add-On Products | Chapter 4. Accessing the Internet |  | |
| openSUSE Documentation Chapter 3. Installing or Removing Software / 3.5. Keeping the System Up-to-date | ||||
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| 3.4. Installing Add-On Products | Chapter 4. Accessing the Internet | | |
openSUSE offers a continuous stream of software security updates for your product. The openSUSE Updater applet informs you about the availability of updates and lets you easily install them with just a few clicks.
The current patches for openSUSE are available from an update software catalog. If you have registered your product during the installation, an update catalog is already configured. If you have not registered openSUSE, you can do so by running + in YaST. Alternatively, you can manually add an update catalog from a source you trust with openSUSE Updater (see Section 3.5.3, “Manually Adding Update Catalogs” for more information).
openSUSE
provides updates sorted by relevance level. Security
updates fix severe security hazards and should definitely be
installed. Recommended updates fix issues that could
compromise your computer, whereas Optional updates fix
non-security relevant issues or provide enhancements.
The openSUSE Updater applet resides in the system tray (KDE) of your panel or in the notification area (GNOME) as an icon depicting the openSUSE mascot (Geeko), which changes color depending on the availability and relevance of updates:
No updates available.
Security updates available.
Recommended or optional updates are available.
Whenever the openSUSE Updater shows the availability of updates, left-click on the
icon to open the Available Updates window. It lists the
patches available. Apart from the patch name you will see the
(Security, Recommended or Optional), and the patch
version number. Patches are sorted alphabetically by default—change
this by clicking on a column headline (,
or ). Click
to proceed.
You will be prompted for the root password. When proceeding with
, the YaST Online Update window opens. Start the
patch installation with . Normally no interaction
is required, but a few patches, such as kernel updates, require manual
interaction—in this case please follow the on-screen instructions.
After the installation has been completed, please confirm with
. Your system is up-to-date now.
The YaST Online Update offers advanced features to customize the patch installation. Please refer to Section “YaST Online Update” (Chapter 3, Online Update, ↑Reference) for more information.
By default openSUSE Updater is started on login and checks for updates every 99 minutes. To change this behavior, right-click the applet icon and choose .
Open a pop-up menu by right-clicking the openSUSE Updater applet and choose
or click in the window. After
you have entered the root
password, the YaST Installation Source module opens. Please see
Section 3.3, “Adding Installation Source” for further instructions.
By default, openSUSE Updater operates with
libzypp, the system's central package, patch,
pattern, and product management library. It is also possible to use
openSUSE Updater as a ZENworks Management Daemon (zmd) front-end. This mode offers
additional functionality such as support for further update sources
(locally mounted directories, YUM, ZENWorks sources, etc.). It is also
possible to install and remove packages with openSUSE Updater in zmd mode.
In order to configure openSUSE Updater to operate in zmd mode, right-click on the applet icon, choose from the pop-up menu, and check + in the configuration menu.
![[Note]](admon/note.png) | For More Information |
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For more information please refer to http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_Updater_Applet. | |
