Chapter 10. Installing Add-On Products

Contents

10.1. Add-Ons
10.2. Binary Drivers
10.3. SUSE Software Development Kit (SDK) 11

Abstract

Add-on products are system extensions. You can install a third party add-on product or a special system extension of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (for example, a CD with support for additional languages or a CD with binary drivers). To install a new add-on, use Software+Add-On Products. You can select various types of product media, like CD, FTP, USB mass storage devices (such as USB flash drives or disks) or a local directory. You can work also directly with ISO files. To add an add-on as ISO file media, select Local ISO Image then enter the Path to ISO Image. The Repository Name is arbitrary.

10.1. Add-Ons

To install a new add-on, proceed as follows:

  1. Click Software+Add-On Products to get an overview of installed add-on products.

  2. Select the add-on repository type and click Next.

  3. Either provide the necessary data or insert the medium. Confirm with Continue. It takes some time until YaST has downloaded and parsed the metadata of the repository.

  4. After having successfully added the add-on media, the software manager starts and you can install packages. Please refer to Chapter 9, Installing or Removing Software for details.

10.2. Binary Drivers

Some hardware needs binary-only drivers to function properly. If you have such hardware, refer to the release notes for more information about availability of binary drivers for your system. To read the release notes, open YaST and select Miscellaneous+Release Notes.

10.3. SUSE Software Development Kit (SDK) 11

SUSE Software Development Kit 11 is an add-on for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. It is a complete tool kit for application development. In fact, to provide a comprehensive build system, SUSE Software Development Kit 11 includes all the open source tools that were used to build the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server product. It provides you - as a developer, independent software vendor (ISV), or independent hardware vendor (IHV) - with all the tools needed to port applications to all the platforms supported by SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

SUSE Software Development Kit also contains integrated development environments (IDEs), debuggers, code editors, and other related tools. It supports most major programming languages, including C, C++, Java, and most scripting languages. For your convenience, SUSE Software Development Kit includes multiple Perl packages that are not included in SUSE Linux Enterprise.

For detailed information, refer to http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/SUSE_LINUX_SDK. Use the YaST add-on installer and package manager to install SUSE Software Development Kit 11.