Re: Yast for debian
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Davide Mirtillo <davide@ser-tec.org> wrote:
> Il 17/12/2012 12:57, Muhammad Yousuf Khan ha scritto:
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:17:56PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>>> is there any tool equivalent to yast in Debian?
>>>
>>> For those of us unfamiliar with what Yast is or does now, can you
>>> explain the particular features you are looking for?
>>
>> SUSE administration tool. instead of x server, admins can use a
>> pseudo-graphical user interface to manage the server. for more details
>> please read.
>>
>> https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE_114/opensuse-reference/cha.yast.text.html
>>
>
> What about aptitude?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptitude_(software)
Aptitude is nice, but it only does one fraction of what YAST does.
I am not sure of the full extent of YAST, but besides
installation/removal of software, it does at least account management,
service management/configuration (DNS, mail, etc) and firewall
configuration. It a bit like Webmin or AIX's SMIT (YAST has a TUI mode
and a GUI mode like SMIT/SMITTY; no web interface). I do not know of
anything like it in Debian since webmin was removed.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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