réjean Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 For those like me using OpenSUSE; http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2015/04/zypper-examples 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I remain behind the times--I still just use YaST. I did save a copy of the page from your link for future unexpected situations--good find. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 7. View Details about a Package To display information about a specific package, use the info option with zypper as shown below: # zypper info usbutils Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Information for package usbutils: Repository: @System Name: usbutils Version: 0.73-38.19 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Support Level: unknown Installed: Yes Status: up-to-date Installed Size: 461.0 KiB Summary: Tools and libraries for USB devices Description: This package contains a utility for inspecting devices connected to USB ports. It requires kernel version 2.3.99-pre7 or newer, or the USB backport which was introduced in 2.2.18 (supporting the /proc/bus/usb interface). Love this feature, would be nice if Arch had something similar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Love this feature, would be nice if Arch had something similar. Surely it does. Looks pretty similar to apt-cache show in Debian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Love this feature, would be nice if Arch had something similar. Surely it does. Looks pretty similar to apt-cache show in Debian. If it has it has escaped my notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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