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Zypper is the native command line interface of the ZYpp package manager for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media.

Zypper is the native command line interface of the ZYpp package manager for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media. Its graphical equivalent is the YaST package manager module

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Zypper: How do I display all packages from a certain repository?

Please tell me, how to let zypper display all installed packages of a certain repository.
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zypper: How to list different available versions of a package?

I want to get a list of all available versions of a package, the same list that you can see in Yast, but using zypper. OpenSuse 13.1, zypper 1.9.16
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Am I using 'zypper' correctly?

I'm a relatively new OpenSuse user, coming from several years with Ubuntu. In Ubuntu, the update manager would pop up every now and then and let me know when I had stuff to install. If I manually wanted to check for updates I'd sudo apt-get update.…
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Zypper: How to list installed packages that are not in a repo

In a system using Zypper for package management (openSuse, in my case) how can one get a list of all installed packages that are not associated with a currently enabled repository? Real problem: When upgrading distributions (e.g., from openSuse 12.1…
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How to mount 3 ISO images as repos in SLES using zypper

I'm wanting to mount the three ISO disks of the SLES11SP3 OS onto my system, as we have a minimal installation and we need to zypper install some additional packages. zypper addrepo iso:/?iso=/path/to/iso1.iso disk1 zypper addrepo…
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Can't uninstall or upgrade git

I'm on openSUSE ver 12.2. My git seems to be installed in /usr/lib. rnx@linux-sh2d2:~> git --version git version 1.7.10.4 rnx@linux-sh2d2:~> which git /usr/bin/git rnx@linux-sh2d2:~> cd /usr/bin/ rnx@linux-sh2d2:/usr/bin> ls -l git lrwxrwxrwx 1…
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Error in repository initialization

I am running opensuse 12.1. When I start up YaST software manager I get an error: There was an error in the repository initialization. Error refreshing service Synergy (http://synergy-foss.org/pm/projects/synergy/repository): Parse error:…
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SUSE SLES 11: zypper: Ignore dependency in scripted setup

I have an issue here, trying to install libopenssl-devel on a SuSE box. The installation is purely from DVD (no online updates involved). $ sudo zypper install libopenssl-devel Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving…
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How to determine OpenSUSE package maintainer?

According to the Zypper Cheat Sheet, we can use zypper info to get package information. Unfortunately, I am not getting results back when using it: > zypper info cryptopp Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... package 'cryptopp'…
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Reinstall KDE from scratch on OpenSUSE

I have installed KDE 5 a while ago after KDE 4. It just broke. So, I am tired of trying to fix the situation here, and I just want to start over from scratch. What I want to do is: Uninstall All Qt libraries and programs (therefore, removing the…
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Zypper on Ubuntu

I'm trying to install packages using zypper but Amazon server that runs Ubuntu seems not to have zypper installed. How can I install zypper? code: zypper install git gcc gcc-c++ error: > unsupported locale setting Traceback (most recent call…
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How to install Erlang and RabbitMQ on OpenSUSE 11

I'm still very new to OpenSUSE , and I'm trying to install erlang then rabbitmq with the package manager but it's not working , like when I do : > zypper install erlang Refreshing service 'susecloud'. Loading repository data... Reading installed…
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OpenSuse zypper is slow on startup

Whenever I open the terminal to install something from the repositories, it takes like 1 minute to 'build' them and all that junk. I recently switched from Ubuntu and apt never had this issue. What can I do to reduce this?
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Sometimes zypper doesn't locate packages when it is provided with the filename only

If the command is provided the full path, the expected package is found: > zypper search --provides --match-exact /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Summary …
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SLES 11.3 zypper over local repository has missing packages

SLES 11.3 zypper over local repository has missing packages Trying to install Apache Ambari over SLES 11.3, I downloaded a full repo tarball. Then I created a local repository over the uncompresed files: zypper addrepo…
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