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.\" Michal Svec <msvec@suse.cz>
.\"
.\" Process this file with
.\" groff -man -Tascii foo.1
.\" groff -man -Tutf8 yast2.8
.\" or run
.\" man -l yast2.8
.\" to display the man page without installing it
.\"
.\" See https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/man.html#man
.\"
.TH YAST2 8 "January 2003" "yast2" "System configuration"
.TH YAST 8 "April 2021" "yast" "System configuration"
.\"
.\"
.SH NAME
YaST2 \- universal configuration utility
YaST \- "Yet another Setup Tool", the installation and configuration tool
.\"
.\"
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B ] [
.I module specific options
.B ]
.br
.B yast2 --install
.I <package>
.B [
.I <package>
.B [
.I ...
.B ] ]
.\"
.\"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B 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 (language, partitioning,
software, bootloader).

.br
.B YaST2
comes with three frontends:
.B GTK
,
.B QT
and
.B ncurses.
All frontends are functionally equivalent.
The correct frontend is selected automatically based on the available
components and the current environment (the DISPLAY variable).

.br
.B YaST
can be used to configure the system. It can configure common hardware
(sound cards, printers), network connections (network cards), network
clients and services (like NFS, FTP), as well as general system options
(language, partitioning, software, bootloader).
.\"
.P
.B YaST
comes with
.B Qt
(graphical) and
.B ncurses
(text mode) frontends located in libyui-qt and libyui-ncurses packages. Both frontends are
functionally equivalent. The correct frontend is selected automatically based
on the available components and the current environment (the DISPLAY variable).
.\"
.P
Use
.B yast2
alone to launch the
.B YaST2 Control Center
.B YaST Control Center
from which you can select a particular configuration module or use
.B yast2 <module>
.B yast2
.I module
to launch the module directly.
.\"
.\"
.SH OPTIONS
.\"
.TP
.B --qt
Run YaST in the QT graphical frontend
.\"
.TP
.B --gtk
Run YaST in the GTK graphical frontend
Run YaST in the Qt graphical frontend if available, otherwise it uses the
ncurses frontend
.\"
.TP
.B --ncurses
Run YaST in the ncurses text-mode frontend
Run YaST in the ncurses text mode frontend
.\"
.TP
.B -g, --geometry
Default window size (QT frontend only).
Default window size (Qt frontend only), e.g. \fB800x600
.\"
.TP
.B -h, --help
Print a usage and exit.
.\"
.TP
.B -i, --install <package> [ <package> [ ... ] ]
Install an RPM package. The
.B 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.
.\"
.\" #222757
.TP
.B --remove <package> [ <package> [ ... ] ]
Remove an RPM package. The
.B package
can be short package names (e.g. gvim)
which will be removed with dependency checking.
Print usage and exit
.\"
.TP
.B -l, --list
List all available modules. To obtain usage info about
a module, use "yast module help".
List all available modules, to obtain usage info about
a module use
.B yast
.I module
.B help
command.
.\"
.\"
.SH MODULES WITH COMMAND LINE INTERFACE
.SH COMMAND LINE INTERFACE
.TP
This is a list of YaST modules currently supporting command line interface:
.P
answering_machine, bootloader, ca_mgm, dhcp-server, dns, dns-server, fax,
firewall, groups, host, http-server, idedma, inetd, irda, kerberos-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
Some YaST modules support command line interface.
.\"
.P
To obtain a list of basic commands for using a YaST module
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.B yast2
.I module
.B xmlhelp
.B xmlfile= \fI<filename>\fP
.B xmlfile=\fI<filename>\fP
.br
.\"
.P
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.SH FILES
.TP
/var/log/YaST2/*
Logs
Log files, use the
.B save_y2logs
command for saving all files into a single archive
.TP
/etc/sysconfig/yast2, $HOME/.yast2/yast2
Configures the preferred GUI.
\" .SH BUGS
\" Please report bugs at http://www.suse.de/feedback
YaST configuration files
.\"
.\"
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
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.\"
.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Michal Svec <msvec@suse.cz> - manual page
Jakub Friedl <jfriedl@suse.cz> - manual page
The YaST Team <yast-devel@opensuse.org>
.fi
.\"
.\"
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-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Apr 14 12:09:49 UTC 2021 - Ladislav Slezák <lslezak@suse.cz>

- Updated manual page ("man yast2") (bsc#1184681)
- 4.4.0

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Apr 12 15:12:41 UTC 2021 - Imobach Gonzalez Sosa <igonzalezsosa@suse.com>

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Name: yast2
Version: 4.3.60
Version: 4.4.0
Release: 0
Summary: YaST2 Main Package
License: GPL-2.0-only
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