Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
is there any tool equivalent to yast in Debian? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGWVfM=xQfSjtYKnZ9aMTPaUFeANaRo_-epAZ=ajm4ydhpa

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Jon Dowland
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? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jon Dowland j...@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

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:18 +, Jon Dowland 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

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 17/12/2012 12:57, Muhammad Yousuf Khan ha scritto: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jon Dowland j...@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

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 16:57 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: instead of x server, admins can use a pseudo-graphical user interface to manage the server. pseudo-graphical does mean ncurses, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses , then you should take a look at dpkg-reconfigure, as I've wrtten

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:26 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 16:57 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: instead of x server, admins can use a pseudo-graphical user interface to manage the server. pseudo-graphical does mean ncurses, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses , then

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
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

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread John Hasler
Kelly writes: 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. That should not be all in one program. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

RE: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Allums
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

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread David Guntner
Kelly Clowers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: 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

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Kelly Clowers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: 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

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread John Hasler
--Dave writes: I have to find myself asking the question, Why on Earth would the maintainers not keep such a valuable package available? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=both;dist=unstable;package=webmin -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:21 AM, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: --Dave writes: I have to find myself asking the question, Why on Earth would the maintainers not keep such a valuable package available?

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:36:33 -0800 Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:21 AM, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: --Dave writes: I have to find myself asking the question, Why on Earth would the maintainers not keep such a valuable package available?

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: is there any tool equivalent to yast in Debian? Thanks You might want to try webmin and/or usermin. But it is no more in the debian repositories. I guess, no debian-developer took a look at it for years. They said at that time

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 dec 12, 16:17:56, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there any tool equivalent to yast in Debian? Kids, don't try this at home: dpkg-reconfigure --all Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 12/17/2012 08:03 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: 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

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Monte Milanuk memila...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/17/2012 08:03 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: 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,