YAST(8)

💅 YAST(8) — like, the whole entire manual page, bestie

okay so this is the yast page from section 8 of the manual (yeah, the system configuration one — YAST(8), iykyk) and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

YaST — "Yet another Setup Tool", the installation and configuration tool 🌸

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

yast2 [ options ] [ module ] [ module specific options ]

like, options first, then a module, then that module's own options. in that order, bestie 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So YaST is literally the tool for configuring your system. It can configure common hardware (sound cards, printers 🖨️), network connections (network cards), network clients and services (like NFS, FTP), and also general system options (language, partitioning, software, bootloader). it's giving main character energy for your whole system ngl 👑

YaST comes with Qt (graphical) and ncurses (text mode) frontends, which live in the libyui-qt and libyui-ncurses packages. Both frontends are functionally equivalent — no cap, they do the same stuff. The correct frontend gets selected automatically based on the available components and the current environment (the DISPLAY variable). so it just knows. obsessed ✨

Use yast2 alone to launch the YaST Control Center, where you can pick a particular configuration module — or use yast2 module to launch the module directly. shortcuts, we love them 🎀

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --qt — run YaST in the Qt graphical frontend if it's available, otherwise it uses the ncurses frontend. (bestie said "graphical if we can, text if we must" 💅)
• --ncurses — run YaST in the ncurses text mode frontend 🖥️
• -g, --geometry — default window size (Qt frontend only), e.g. 800x600
• -h, --help — print usage and exit 👋
• -l, --list — list all available modules. to obtain usage info about a module, use the yast module help command 🗒️

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✨ COMMAND LINE INTERFACE ✨

Some YaST modules support a command line interface. (not all of them, so don't come for me 🙈)

To obtain a list of basic commands for using a YaST module with support for command line interface, use:

yast2 module help

To get more comprehensive information about the commands available for a YaST module, use:

yast2 module longhelp

To get information about the commands available for a YaST module in a XML formatted file, use:

yast2 module xmlhelp xmlfile=<filename>

To get information about a specific command of a YaST module, use:

yast2 module command help

To start an interactive console in which you can execute commands of a YaST module, use:

yast2 module interactive

literally a whole lil REPL for your modules, slay 🐚💜

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✨ FILES ✨

• /var/log/YaST2/* — log files. use the save_y2logs command for saving all files into a single archive 📦 (so handy fr fr)
• /etc/sysconfig/yast2, $HOME/.yast2/yast2 — YaST configuration files 🗂️

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✨ EXIT STATUS ✨

• 0 — successful program execution 🎉
• 1 — too few arguments 😭
• 5 — error in arguments 💀
• 16 — generic module error
• > 16 — module specific error codes

so like, if you get something bigger than 16, that's the module being dramatic on its own terms. check the module docs, bestie 🫶

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

The YaST Team <yast-devel@opensuse.org> 💌

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2*. go read it, it's giving lore 📚⭐

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okay that's the whole page, no cap, nothing skipped 💖 this was yast — from April 2021, page YAST(8) of the manual — and honestly? iconic. periodt. 🌈👑