zypper.md

Cheaht Sheet: zypper (SLE & opensuse)

Zypper is the common package manager in Opensuse and SuSE Linux Enterprise (SLES).

Getting Help

List the available global options and commands

zypper help

Print help for a specific command

zypper help <command>

Open a zypper shell session

zypper shell
# or
zypper sh

Repository Management

List defined Repositories

zypper repos
# or
zypper lr

Refresh the local repo cache

zypper refresh
# or
zypper ref

Adding Repositories

zypper addrepo <url> <alias>
# or
zypper ar <url> <alias>

Modify Repositories

zypper modifyrepo
# or
zypper mr

Rename Repositories

zypper namerepo <repository>
# or
zypper nr <repository>

Remove Repositories

zypper removerepo <repository>
# or
zypper rr <repository>

Package Management

Install Package

zypper install <package>
# or
zypper in <package>

Remove Package

zypper remove <package>
# or
zypper rm <package>

Update Management

Update Package

zypper update <package>
# or
zypper up <package>
# or use it like installing package

List needed patches

zypper list-patches
# or
zypper lp

List all patches

zypper patches

Check patches

zypper patch-check
# or
zypper patch-check

Apply patches

zypper patch

List Updates

zypper list-updates
# or
zypper lu

Apply Updates

zypper update
# or
zypper up

Distribution Upgrade

zypper dist-upgrade
# or
zypper dup

Querying

Search the Repositories

zypper search <string>
# or
zypper se <string>

Information about a package

zypper info <package>

Information about dependencies

zypper what-provides <package>
# or
zypper wp <package>

Locks / Pinning

List Locks

zypper locks
# or
zypper ll

Add Locks

zypper addlock
# or
zypper al

Remove Locks

zypper removelock
# or
zypper rl

Utilities

Daemons, Tools or so that needs to be restartet after some operation

zypper ps

Verify dependencies

zypper verify
# or
zypper ve