about the zypper

when i use zypper, i found i can not change the install directory, or may be there is some ways i don not know.

And any one who know abut the source install and install ?
thank you

zypper is a CLI package manager for managing binary rpm packages. Some tutorials:

openSUSE Tutorials

http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Changes/11.0

If you want to install src rpm packages, have a read of this:

http://en.opensuse.org/Use_of_rpm_src_packages

Edit: Slow internet, meant I accidentally submitted reply twice. Not sure why that happened…