To install and remove software with zypper, you need only give the install (in) or remove (rm) command along with the package name. In the following example, zypper looks for information on the zoo archiving utility and finds it is in the Main
Repository (OSS).
#
zypper info zoo
...
Information for package zoo:
Repository: Main Repository (OSS) Name: zoo
Version: 2.10-938
...
To install
the zoo package, you only need to give the install or in command:
# zypper install
zoo
*
Reading repository ‘openSUSE-10.3-DVD
10.3’ cache
*
Reading repository
‘madwifi’ cache
*
Reading repository
‘ftp.gwdg.de’
cache
*
Reading repository
‘Main Repository (NON-OSS)’ cache
*
Reading repository ‘openSUSE-10.3-Updates’ cache
*
Reading repository
‘testcdrom’
cache
*
Reading repository
‘Main Repository (OSS)’ cache
*
Reading installed packages
[100%]
The following NEW
package is going
to be installed:
zoo
Overall download size:
62.9 K. After the operation, additional 108.2 K will be used.
Continue? [yes/no]:
The Main Repository (OSS)
alias is a URL (which you might rename to something a little less
unwieldy). To install zoo from a different repository, specify this with the –r flag:
#
zypper install -r testcdrom zoo
*
Reading repository
‘testcdrom’
cache
*
Reading installed packages
[100%]
The following NEW
package is going
to be installed:
zoo
Overall download size:
62.9 K. After the operation, additional 108.2 K will be used.
Continue? [yes/no]:
To remove the zoo package, use the remove or rm command with zypper:
#
zypper remove zoo
...
*
Reading installed packages
[100%]
The following
package is
going to be
REMOVED:
zoo
After the
operation, 108.2
K will
be
freed. Continue? [yes/no]: y
*
Removing zoo-2.10-938
[100%]
To install an available patch that was returned from the zypper pch
operation,
zypper could be
implemented this way:
#
zypper install -t patch fetchmsttfonts.sh
...
The following NEW
patch is going to be
installed:
fetchmsttfonts.sh
The following NEW
script is going
to be installed:
fetchmsttfonts.sh-4347-patch-fetchmsttfonts.sh-2
After the operation, 0.0 B will
be
freed. Continue? [yes/no]:
You can also use zypper to perform a complete update of your openSUSE system. With the update (up) command, zypper will collect the updated packages and patches it knows about and give you the option of applying them to your system:
# zypper update
* Reading repository
‘openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3’ cache
* Reading repository
‘madwifi’ cache
* Reading repository
‘ftp.gwdg.de’ cache
* Reading repository
‘Main Repository (NON-OSS)’ cache
* Reading repository
‘openSUSE-10.3-Updates’ cache
* Reading repository
‘testcdrom’ cache
* Reading repository
‘Main Repository (OSS)’ cache
* Reading installed
packages [100%] Nothing
to do.
By using the shell command, you can work with zypper using a shell interface. This negates the need to include the zypper command every time you run a command.
Once in the
shell, just enter the commands you would normally use on the command line. Use the
quit or exit command to exit the shell:
# zypper
shell
zypper>
lr
# | Enabled| Refresh|
Type |
Alias | Name
--+---------+-------+--------+------------------+---------------
1 | Yes | No | yast2 | openSUSE-10.3-...| openSUSE-10.3-...
|
2 | Yes
|
| Yes
|
| rpm-md | madwifi | madwifi
|
|
3 | Yes
|
| Yes
|
| rpm-md | ftp.gwdg.de | ftp.gwdg.de
|
|
4 | Yes
|
| Yes
|
|
|
5 | Yes
|
| Yes
|
| rpm-md | openSUSE-10.3-...| openSUSE-10.3-...
|
|
6 | Yes
|
| No
|
| yast2 | testcdrom | testcdrom
|
|
7 | Yes
|
| Yes
|
NOTE To find out more
about using the zypper command, visit the openSUSE
web
site under the Zypper Usage section (http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/ Usage).
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