Part II Imaging and Creating Products

An add-on is a special designed media, usually a CD or DVD, to extend SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop with your product. The Add-on Product Creator was developed to support customers and partners and simplify third-party software distribution for all SUSE products.

To be able to use the Add-on Product Creator you need to install the package yast2-add-on-creator from the SUSE Software Development Kit. The SDK is an add-on product for SUSE Linux Enterprise and is available for download from http://download.suse.com/. Search for SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit.

The YaST Product Creator is a graphical tool to provide creation of installable images. To be able to use it you need to install the package yast2-product-creator from the SUSE Software Development Kit. The SDK is an add-on product for SUSE Linux Enterprise and is available for download from http://download.suse.com/. Search for SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit.

The YaST Image Creator is a graphical interface for the KIWI imaging tool (see http://doc.opensuse.org/projects/kiwi/doc/ for mor einformation on KIWI). With Image Creator, you can create a new KIWI configuration, or import an existing one and modify it, then build the image after the configuration is complete. Advanced users can save the configuration to disk, then modify it and build the image manually.

To be able to use it you need to install the package yast2-product-creator from the SUSE Software Development Kit. The SDK is an add-on product for SUSE Linux Enterprise and is available for download from http://download.suse.com/. Search for SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit.

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