YaST Alternatives

    YaST is described as 'is the installation and configuration tool for openSUSE and the SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions' and is an app in the System & Hardware category. There are three alternatives to YaST for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mageia, Mandriva Linux, OpenMandriva Lx and openSUSE. The best alternative is Zypper, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like YaST are Mageia Control Center (Free, Open Source) and Linux Live Kit (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Aug 4, 2020

    1. Zypper

      • Free • Open Source
      • Linux
      • openSUSE
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      Zypper is a command line package manager for openSUSE which makes use of libzypp. Zypper provides functions like repository access, dependency solving, package installation, etc.
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      Zypper vs YaST opinions
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      Zypper is a package manager, yast is a configuration tool, obviously providing much more functionality upon setting things up in opensuse
      Negative comment • about 2 years ago

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    2. Mageia Control Center

      • Free • Open Source
      • Linux
      • OpenMandriva Lx
      • Mageia
      • Mandriva Linux
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      MCC, or drakconf, is a system configuration tool forked from Mandriva by Mageia.

    4. Linux Live Kit

      • Free • Open Source
      • Linux
      • Slax
      • Debian
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      Linux Live Kit is a set of shell scripts which allows you to create your own Live Linux from an already installed Linux distribution.
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