Why `zypper up` tries to install new stuff?

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#1

Whenever I do sudo zypper up it tries to install some new stuff that I don’t want and I don’t need. For example, this is the current output of sudo zypper up:



The following 17 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  amarok ibus ibus-branding-openSUSE-KDE ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-qt kaffeine kmahjongg kmail kmines kontact kreversi ksudoku ktorrent libunwind-devel tigervnc ucode-amd

I delibarately removed some of them and I don’t want them to be re-installed, but zypper up just insists. Any ideas why is it doing that and how do I prevent it?

Thanks.

#2

Hi,

Those packages might be a dependency on some packages (or not). IIRC you can disable it in

/etc/zypp/zypp.conf

That being said you can lock those packages either via yast or zypper.
With zypper you read this.

zypper help al

In yast you can check to

taboo

the packages.

the lock file is in

/etc/zypp/locks
#3

In Yast, you can blackiist the packages that you don’t want to ever install. There’s probably also a way to do that with “zypper”.

Alternatively, you can set the option in Yast Software Management – “Ignore Recommended Packages for already installed packages”. I don’t think that helps with “zypper” – you would probably have to get into the habit of using the option “–no-recommends”.

#4

Thanks all. I enabled the “Ignore Recommended Packages for already installed packages” setting in Yast and added



solver.onlyRequires = true

and I think it worked!