From the course: Complete Guide to Linux Security: Protecting Your Linux Server Environment

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Updating SUSE

Updating SUSE - Linux Tutorial

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Updating SUSE

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- Let's discuss and demonstrate how to update SUSE. Now, you might be wondering what's the difference between SUSE and Open SUSE? Open SUSE is the free version that you can use and support yourself. SUSE, on the other hand, has paid support that is optional to you, and that's done with SLES, that's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We're going to be running Open SUSE here. I'm running the open one here with my own support. But either way, you are working with package managers and tools that can deal with the updates. The two main tools are YaST2 and also zypper. YaST2 is a software module that allows for updates either in a tab-based user interface or in the GUI if you have a desktop. But more often than not, I'll use zypper, that is command line only. And so the zypper command could be used with refresh, with install, and with update. And when you work with these SUSE and Open SUSE distros, you're normally working with .rpm and .repo packages. So let's take a look at our SUSE system now.…

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