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Old 06-Nov-2009, 07:55
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Hi everyone, although I am sure most opensuse veteran Users know the information in the following article , I just wanted to point out that zypper & opensuse got some love at Linux Journal:

Package Management With Zypper | Linux Journal
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Nice!------->zypper
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I am begining to really like zypper in openSUSE, I still like apt better but thats because I dont know the zypper equivalent to apt-get clean.
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The zypper equivalent is

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zypper clean
man zypper gives this

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clean [alias|#|URI] ...
Clean the local caches for all known or specified repositories. By default,
only caches of downloaded packages are cleaned.

-m, --metadata
Clean repository metadata cache instead of package cache.

-M, --raw-metadata
Clean repository raw metadata cache instead of package cache.

-a, --all
Clean both repository metadata and package caches.
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The zypper equivalent is
zypper clean


man zypper gives this
Thanks, I looked up zypper commands and didnt see that in there.
Must have missed it somehow
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Originally Posted by TaraIkeda View Post
I am begining to really like zypper in openSUSE, I still like apt better but thats because I dont know the zypper equivalent to apt-get clean.
Code:
zypper clean -a
Taken from the zypper man page. Enter
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man:zypper
in Konqueror.
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clean (cc) [options] [alias|#|URI] ...
Clean the local caches for all known or specified repositories. By default,
only caches of downloaded packages are cleaned.
-m, --metadata
Clean repository metadata cache instead of package cache.
-M, --raw-metadata
Clean repository raw metadata cache instead of package cache.
-a, --all
Clean both repository metadata and package caches.
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Also check this out for more usage: Zypper/Usage/11.1 - openSUSE
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