Using Zypper and RPM to install ,uninstall and manage packages ,patches and updates on SUSE Enterprise Linux,Linux Teacher Sourav,Kolkata 08910141720

install something

sudo zypper install packagename

it will install the package with the dependancies

for example to install git-core

sudo zypper install git-core


now to remove the package

sudo zypper remove git-core


as you might seee when installing the git-core package
you have  a dependency called perl-error which was installed
but this is not removed when using sudo zypper remove git-core

so to remove it manually

 sudo zypper remove perl-Error

however let us do the proper way of removing a package with the dependencies

lets install git-core again

 sudo zypper install git-core

after installing we need to use this to remove git-core as well as
the dependency perl-error

sudo zypper rm --clean-deps git-core


to see all our missing dependecies

 sudo zypper verify

this will most likely solve any dependency issue the system is having

to get the necessary patches/updates

sudo zypper patch



to include the optionalpatches

sudo zypper patch --with-optional


to get a summary list of security patches recommended patches

and optional patches


sudo zypper patch-check

the difference between patches and updates is

patches which are mostly associated with kernel are generally
backward compatible

but updates are not always backward compatible

to list all the patches

sudo zypper list-patches

to update the system

sudo zypper update

after update to reflect the changes to some files

sudo zypper ps -s

to see if there is any more update to perform

sudo zypper list-updates

to get information about a package

rpm -q -i wget


to list all the files in the package

 rpm -q -l wget

to see all the documentation files in a package

rpm -q -d wget

to see all the configuration files in a package

rpm -q -c wget

to see the scripts those are used for installing and uninstalling

rpm -q --scripts wget