Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Davide Mirtillo <dav...@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 <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 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-ref >>> erence/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 The majority of Debian maintainers are aware of the existence of Yast. I expect that if interest in it was that high, they would have long ago adapted it for Debian. Since they haven't, I assume that interest in it is not that high. -- 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/030e01cddc7f$37aa5700$a6ff0500$@allums.com
