Ho do I search for packages nowadays? I discovered that software.opensuse.org no longer find anything even with all options “developer packages”. It easpecially useless if I choose the proper distribution.
For instance, I put “fish” in the search input, choose all checkboxes in the config and select “openSUSE Leap 16.0” (or 15.6) and press search: it doesn’t find anything. And same for the following obvious search terms: nvim, neovim, mpv, tmux, konsole. Exactly no results.
So what’s going on? I’ve noticed it several months ago and still no fix for this regression. So do we care? So many things breaks so I don’t know, may be it’s time…
In which input?
Don’t use s.o.o it is known to be broken for years. Use the built in tools of your distribution.
In Myrlyn, simply change the search mode to “Contains” instead of “Auto”.
Or if you are more used to a terminal, simply use zypper search <packagename>.
@cy6erGn0m the problem then is folks install all sorts of repositories and files and get into all sorts of issues… what do you need that is not in the default repositories? Look at using Flatpaks? Or even distrobox…
haha… and me looking for the alien tool in flatpak…
also me downloading all ubuntu versions at the same time using flatpak
also me installing all gnome versions ever 800mb each to run a couple of small 50kb strange looking helper utilities when I need no gnome at all
distrobox? isn’t it easier to install another distro natively then?
Of course some apps can be installed via flatpak, something can be even complied manually from sources if there is no other choice but to be honest, obs is fine. Yes it’s a big trouble when upgrading, there are no mirrors for it (actually, for leap 16 there are still no mirrors), there are no cdn (which for me actually introduce more problems than solves)
but obs provides a lot of packages that are missing and no flatpak can compete with them even though the quality of these packages are not that good and safety is under question
Well, this is still the problem of s.o.o when presenting a lot of search results. In this case fortunately the whole word search works, but in other cases one may want to explicitly search for substring.
