zypper products
zypper patterns
zypper packages
zypper patches
To query all repositories for certain packages, use search. It works on package names,
or, optionally, on package summaries and descriptions. Using the wildcards * and ?
with the search term is allowed. By default, the search is not case-sensitive.
zypper search firefox # simple search for "firefox"
zypper search "*fire*" # using wildcards
zypper search -d fire # also search in package descriptions and
summaries
zypper search -u firefox # only display packages not already installed
To search for packages which provide a special capability, use the command
what-provides. For example, if you would like to know which package provides the
perl module SVN::Core, use the following command:
zypper what-provides 'perl(SVN::Core)'
To query single packages, use info with an exact package name as an argument. It
displays detailed information about a package. To also show what is required/recom-
mended by the package, use the options --requires and --recommends:
zypper info --requires MozillaFirefox
The what-provides
package
is similar to rpm -q --whatprovides
package
, but rpm is
only able to query the RPM database (that is the database of all installed packages).
Zypper, on the other hand, will tell you about providers of the capability from any
repository, not only those that are installed.
9.1.6 Conguring Zypper
Zypper now comes with a conguration le, allowing you to permanently change
Zypper's behavior (either system-wide or user-specic). For system-wide changes,
edit /etc/zypp/zypper.conf. For user-specic changes, edit ~/.zypper.conf. If ~/
.zypper.conf does not yet exist, you can use /etc/zypp/zypper.conf as template:
copy it to ~/.zypper.conf and adjust it to your liking. Refer to the comments in the
le for help about the available options.
9.1.7 Troubleshooting
In case you have problems to access packages from congured repositories (for ex-
ample, zypper cannot nd a certain package though you know that it exists in one
the repositories), it can help to refresh the repositories with:
zypper refresh
If that does not help, try
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