Questions tagged [zypper]
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zypper: how to list all active package repos?
How can I show all active package repos with zypper?
I need the output for a check script.
I know how to list them all. But I would like to avoid to parse this output with a regex:
foo-work:~ # LANG=C zypper lr
# | Alias …

guettli
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How to install packages from list with zypper?
End state. I want to reformat my / partition, reinstall opensuse tumbleweed, and have the same packages installed then as now.
Problem. I made what appears to be a poor choice, formatting the root filesystem as btrfs. The 20 GB I had for it was…

A. R. Diederich
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install cURL on an Amazon Suse
I'm trying to install cURL on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 machine. I'm using this action to do so:
sudo zypper in curl
And I get this error message:
Refreshing service 'susecloud'.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed…

neo
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Installing php53-devel on an Amazon Suse
(I hope this is the right place for this type of question)
I'm trying to install cURL on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 machine. I'm using this action to do so:
sudo zypper install php53-devel
And I get this error message:
Refreshing…

neo
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GCP Suse Enterprise LInux 15, no default package repository
I created a suse linux enterprise 15 vm in GCP. When I try to install anything it gives the following error.
I searched a lot but couldn't find default package repo for suse.
test-suse:/etc/zypp/repos.d # zypper refresh --services
There are no…

bitkot
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Auto select solution for zypper
I need to automate package installation with zypper that requires selecting a solution. How can this be done in non-interactive mode?
# zypper in /tmp/repos-sles15-sp2-current.x86_64.rpm
Loading repository data...
Reading installed…

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Saltstack: How to install a new zypper RPM Repo?
How to add a new rpm package repo via saltstack?
I checked the docs, and only see method to list, modify or delete repos:
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.zypper.html
I would like to do this:
root@server# zypper ar…

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SUSE SLES 11 Zypper addrepo succeeds; but repo is not added
I am using SUSE SLES 11 = on my server zypper addrepo succceds . however after that when I perform a listing of repositories (using zypper repos -d) I see no repositries were added. This is driving me nuts . Any suggestions ?
zypper addrepo…

Yogesh Devi
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Reinstall Zypper 1.5.3 Opensuse 11.4
A colleague of mine unfortunately removed a package with zypper ending up removing zypper from the server.
I am trying to reinstall it via the .rpm package.
I have tried downloading it via wget:
wget…

Niko Zarzani
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Installing packages in SLES 12 SP3
I'm new to Suse and I have no idea how to do anything here. This is something I'm terribly new at and I can't figure out some basic stuff. First off, I'm used to Ubuntu. To install packages in Suse I'm using Zypper. It's fairly easy to do so and…

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Set value in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf via salt
I would like to set the following setting in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf via salt:
solver.allowVendorChange = true
How to do this?
There is a module for zypper, but I found no way to update the above…

guettli
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SLES 12 SP1 expired letsencrypt X3 root ca certificate
I'm working with SLES 12 SP1.
When running
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:Factory/standard/openSUSE:Factory.repo
I get the following error
Download (curl) error for…

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php command not found after PHP8 install on OpenSUSE Leap 15.4
I have upgraded my OpenSUSE Leap from 15.3 to 15.4.
I then want to upgrade PHP from version 7 to version 8. Before upgrade, PHP version is:
server:~ # php -v
PHP 7.4.33 (cli) (built: Nov 3 2022 12:00:00) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend…

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Creating a Skeleton/Template SUSE or SLES Linux Server
Scenario: I have a "template" server with all the services and packages installed which will be replicated on many new servers.
Each newly replicated server will be stood up by installing a specific version of SLES (15 SP4 in this case), then…

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Difference between zypper and rpm for installed packages
I'm looking at a reliable way to find how many installed packages I have on my OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 system. I tried:
# number of available packages in the repos
vm-admin:~ # zypper se -s | wc -l
55800
# number of installed packages from the…

dan
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