How to use SUSE Linux's Zypper package manager
How to use SUSE Linux's Zypper package manager? I believe many inexperienced people don't know what to do about it. Therefore, this article summarizes the causes and solutions of the problem. Through this article, I hope you can solve this problem.
Zypper is used in SuSE Linux to install, update, delete software, manage repositories, and perform various query operations. In this article, we will discuss different examples of the zypper command.
Syntax:
# zypper [--global-opts] [--command-opts] [command-arguments]
System version
OpenSUSE leap 15.2
Example 1: lists the available global options and commands.
Enter the zypper command, which displays all global options and commands that are available in zypper.
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper
Example 2: get help from the zypper subcommand
Syntax: zypper help [subcommand]
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper help remove
Example 3: list warehouses
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper repos or a3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper lr
Example 4: refresh the warehouse database
Syntax: zypper refresh or zypper ref
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper ref
Example 5: install software
Syntax: zypper install or zypper in
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper in-y vim
Example 6: delete software
Syntax: zypper remove or zypper rm
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper rm-y vim
Example 7: update the software package
Syntax: zypper update or zypper up
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper update-y zypper
Example 8: search for installation packages
Syntax: zypper search or zypper se
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper se gnome-desktop
Example 9: view the details of the installation package
Syntax: zypper info or zypper if
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper info apache2
Example 10: clear zypper cache
If you only want to clean up the zypper cache, you can use the following command:
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper clean All repositories have been cleaned up.
If you want to clear the metadata and package cache immediately, use the zypper clean-an option:
A3f8298a0fe2:/ # zypper clean-an All repositories have been cleaned up. After reading the above, have you mastered how to use SUSE Linux's Zypper package manager? If you want to learn more skills or want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel, thank you for reading!
