As with most commands, you can find more information about the command by typing --help or -h. Below I have shown what --help reveals about the info command in zypper. Info will reveal a lot of useful information. It tells you if it's installed, which repository it's from, the version number, architecture, vendor, the status (such as up-to-date or not), installed size, gives the summary, and description.
With info you can refine your searches even more. You can specify your search to a given repository, or a specific type (since package is the default type, I don't see why you'd want to use that one), find the requires (dependencies of the package), and what zypper recommends.
Code:
zypper info --help
info (if) [options] <name> ...
Show detailed information for specified packages.
Command options:
-r, --repo <alias|#|URI> Work only with the specified repository.
-t, --type <type> Type of package (package, patch, pattern, product).
Default: package.
--requires Show also requires and prerequires.
--recommends Show also recommends.
This is a default search with no options.
Code:
zypper info MozillaFirefox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package MozillaFirefox:
Repository: Mozilla Alpha
Name: MozillaFirefox
Version: 12.99-7.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/mozilla
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 38.7 MiB
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Description:
Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards
compliance and performance. Its functionality can be enhanced via a
plethora of extensions.
This is a search using the repo option and using the alias of the repo.
Code:
zypper info -r Mozilla_Factory MozillaFirefox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package MozillaFirefox:
Repository: Mozilla Factory
Name: MozillaFirefox
Version: 12.99-7.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/mozilla
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 38.7 MiB
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Description:
Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards
compliance and performance. Its functionality can be enhanced via a
plethora of extensions.
Here is another example using repo, but this time I used the number of the repo instead of the alias.
Code:
zypper info -r 13 MozillaFirefox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package MozillaFirefox:
Repository: Mozilla Factory
Name: MozillaFirefox
Version: 12.99-7.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/mozilla
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 38.7 MiB
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Description:
Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards
compliance and performance. Its functionality can be enhanced via a
plethora of extensions.
To find patches I had to use zypper list-patches --all. I then did this example with the name of the patch. I'll write another article covering zypper list-patches.
Code:
zypper info -t patch openSUSE-2011-100
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for patch openSUSE-2011-100:
Name: openSUSE-2011-100
Version: 1
Arch: noarch
Vendor: wrosenauer
Status: Installed
Category: security
Created On: Thu 22 Dec 2011 02:37:49 AM MST
Reboot Required: No
Package Manager Restart Required: No
Interactive: No
Summary: update for mozilla-nss
Description:
- Added a patch to fix errors in the pkcs11n.h header file.
(bmo#702090)
- update to 3.13.1 RTM
* better SHA-224 support (bmo#647706)
* fixed a regression (causing hangs in some situations)
introduced in 3.13 (bmo#693228)
- update to 3.13.0 RTM
* SSL 2.0 is disabled by default
* A defense against the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CBC chosen plaintext
attack demonstrated by Rizzo and Duong (CVE-2011-3389) is
enabled by default. Set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to
PR_FALSE to disable it.
* SHA-224 is supported
* Ported to iOS. (Requires NSPR 4.9.)
* Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the
error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code
* Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string
* Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only
* NSS_NoDB_Init does not try to open /pkcs11.txt and /secmod.db
anymore (bmo#641052, bnc#726096)
Provides:
patch:openSUSE-2011-100 == 1
Conflicts:
libfreebl3.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libfreebl3-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libfreebl3-debuginfo.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libsoftokn3.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libsoftokn3-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libsoftokn3-debuginfo.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
srcpackage:mozilla-nss < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-certs.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-certs-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-debuginfo.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-debuginfo-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-debugsource.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-devel.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-sysinit.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-32bit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-tools.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo.i586 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libfreebl3.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libfreebl3-debuginfo.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libsoftokn3.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
libsoftokn3-debuginfo.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-certs.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-debuginfo.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-debugsource.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-devel.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-sysinit.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-tools.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo.x86_64 < 3.13.1-9.11.1
Here is a search showing the requires/dependencies of mozilla-nss.
Code:
zypper info --requires mozilla-nss
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package mozilla-nss:
Repository: Mozilla Factory
Name: mozilla-nss
Version: 3.13.3-98.4
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/mozilla
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 1.8 MiB
Summary: Network Security Services
Description:
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to
support cross-platform development of security-enabled server
applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3,
TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3
certificates, and other security standards.
Requires:
libc.so.6()(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libnspr4.so()(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit)
libplc4.so()(64bit)
libplds4.so()(64bit)
libpthread.so.0()(64bit)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libnss3.so()(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.2)(64bit)
libnssutil3.so()(64bit)
libnssutil3.so(NSSUTIL_3.12)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.12)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.3)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.10)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.11)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.4)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.6)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.7)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.9)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.9.3)(64bit)
mozilla-nss-certs
libnss3.so(NSS_3.11.1)(64bit)
libz.so.1()(64bit)
libnssutil3.so(NSSUTIL_3.12.3)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.8)(64bit)
libnssutil3.so(NSSUTIL_3.12.5)(64bit)
libnssutil3.so(NSSUTIL_3.13)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.11.2)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.6)(64bit)
libnss3.so(NSS_3.3.1)(64bit)
/sbin/ldconfig
mozilla-nspr >= 4.9.0
libfreebl3 >= 3.12.4
libsoftokn3 >= 3.12.4
Here a did a recommends query for MozillaFirefox.
Code:
zypper info --recommends MozillaFirefox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package MozillaFirefox:
Repository: Mozilla Alpha
Name: MozillaFirefox
Version: 12.99-7.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/mozilla
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 38.7 MiB
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Description:
Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards
compliance and performance. Its functionality can be enhanced via a
plethora of extensions.
Recommends:
libcanberra0
