yast vs zypper in viewing applications

[fabricelemaistre]

Hello all,

can someone explain me why there's a difference beetween Yast and Zypper in viewing the installed applications ?

example : yast will see an installed opera 9.52 and zypper will tell me opera is not installed

How come ?

Thanks

in console here's what i have :

fabrice@linux-p5b5:~> su
Mot de passe :
linux-p5b5:/home/fabrice # zypper se opera
T�l�chargement des meta-donn�es du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community' [fait]
Construction du cache du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community' [fait]
T�l�chargement des meta-donn�es du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE4:Factory:Desktop' [fait]
Construction du cache du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE4:Factory:Desktop' [fait]
T�l�chargement des meta-donn�es du d�p�t 'openSUSE-11.0-Updates' [fait]
Construction du cache du d�p�t 'openSUSE-11.0-Updates' [fait]
T�l�chargement des meta-donn�es du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports' [fait]
Construction du cache du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports' [fait]
T�l�chargement des meta-donn�es du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - XFCE' [fait]
Construction du cache du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - XFCE' [fait]
T�l�chargement des meta-donn�es du d�p�t 'kde4_extra_apps' [fait]
Construction du cache du d�p�t 'kde4_extra_apps' [fait]
T�l�chargement des meta-donn�es du d�p�t 'kde4_community' [fait]
Construction du cache du d�p�t 'kde4_community' [fait]
T�l�chargement des meta-donn�es du d�p�t 'Packman Repository' [fait]
Construction du cache du d�p�t 'Packman Repository' [fait]
T�l�chargement des meta-donn�es du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - Games' [fait]
Construction du cache du d�p�t 'openSUSE BuildService - Games' [fait]
Lecture des paquets install�s...

S | Nom   | R�sum�                         | Type
--+-------+--------------------------------+----------
i | opera | The Opera Web Browser          | paquet
i | opera | opera: version upgrade to 9.52 | correctif
linux-p5b5:/home/fabrice # zypper up opera
Lecture des paquets install�s...
Le paquet 'opera' n'est pas install�. 
Rien � faire.
"[ translation : opera package is not installed / nothing to do]"

[jplindy]

I noticed that you were using the su command without the "-" option. The "-" option will give you root's paths as well as permissions. That might not make a difference but you never know.
When I was using Fedora I'd sometime get inconsistencies between the CLI yum and the GUI yumex. These could be cleared up by cleaning out the metadata files every now and then, and or rebuilding the rpm database.

[fabricelemaistre]

if it could only be that

here's what i've got now with su -

 # su -
linux-p5b5:~ # zypper up opera
Downloading repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla' metadata [done]
Building repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla' cache [done]
Downloading repository 'kde4_extra_apps' metadata [done]
Building repository 'kde4_extra_apps' cache [done]
Downloading repository 'kde4_community' metadata [done]
Building repository 'kde4_community' cache [done]
Downloading repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Virtualisation (VirtualBox)' metadata [done]
Building repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Virtualisation (VirtualBox)' cache [done]
Reading installed packages...
Package 'opera' is not installed.
Nothing to do.

[cookdav]

Yeah, that msg is a bit misleading, given that input,
but read the fine print on the man page! [You are just assuming you
know the syntax. But, yes, I agree that it is
sort of a bug, since you were not the first one to
mention this.]

The expected syntax is:

zypper up -t package opera
[which should yield: No update candidate for 'opera'.]

[RedDwarf]

But, yes, I agree that it is
sort of a bug, since you were not the first one to
mention this.]

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407238
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404430
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=395480

[sainikudu]

The post is fabulous and it shows the hard work that has been done behind creating the post. I am really grateful and thank you so much.



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