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Manage repositories

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Manage repositories

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- [Instructor] Software is installed as a package, and packages come from repositories. Now when you did an installation off your DVD that was added as a repository. And there's a tool that's used to work with packages called zypper. So if I use zypper and I want to list my repositories, I'll see that the CD is added already to the list of repositories. If I want to get more information about them, what I can say is 'zypper repos, detailed information'. And now I get more information about it and you can see yes in fact the URI is a CD. Well what happens if you want to use a different repo? Now if you're going to be using Suse Linux Enterprise really the only repos you want to add are going to be the ones that comes with your maintenance subscription. That's why you gotta a subscription to use the official packages. And those will be added automatically through the process of adding your subscription. One other case, where you would use an additional repo with Suse Linux server would…

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