Thanks for your reply, caf4926. I followed your suggestion. My box is named amd64. Here is a conversation, using the suggested command.
Code:
ak@amd64:~> zypper lr --details
Unknown option --details
ak@amd64:~>
ak@amd64:~> sudo zypper lr --details
root's password:
Unknown option --details
ak@amd64:~>
Not a big advance... Perhaps there is another zypper command? Can you suggest a good information source of explanation of zypper, perhaps better than the "man" pages? I guess that lr is "load repository", does that sound a reasonable supposition?
I need to catch up with the zypper - openSUSE is moving along at a lively pace. Thanks for your help!
OldAl.