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Chapter 31. Zypper

Objectives

  • Explain what zypper is
  • Discuss the queries zypper can be used for
  • Install, remove and upgrade packages using zypper

What is Zypper?

It is homologous to yum and apt but for SUSE Linux and openSUSE. This tool can manage the installation, removal, upgrade and update of packages either localy or remotely.

Chapter 30. yum

Objective

  • Discuss package installers and their characteristics
  • Explain what yum is
  • Configure yum to use repositories
  • Discuss the queries yum can be used for
  • Verify, install, remove and upgrade packages using yum

Package Installers

Rpm and dpkg are lower level package utilities which deal with specific software package files and manage already installed software.

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