Topic: zypper

• Administering SUSE Linux with zypper: refresh, patch versus update versus dup, and non-interactive runs

  zypper separates refreshing repository metadata, installing official patches, updating individual packages and a full distribution upgrade into four distinct commands. Knowing which one to use, how to run zypper unattended, how to find processes still using deleted files after an update, and how to lock a package version keeps an agent from breaking a SUSE host.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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