Zypper build-deps-install

Tokolosh · April 8, 2011, 11:53pm

On my ubuntu machine I was used to using:

apt-get build-deps pkg_name

to install only the dependencies and not the package itself.

Is there an equivalent option in zypper?

And I know about “zypper si -d …” but that tries to build from source and the source for the package I need isn’t on the repos.

martin_helm · April 9, 2011, 12:39am

Tokolosh wrote:

>
> On my ubuntu machine I was used to using:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> apt-get build-deps pkg_name
> --------------------
>
> to install only the dependencies and not the package itself.
>
> Is there an equivalent option in zypper?
>
> And I know about “zypper si -d …” but that tries to build from source
> and the source for the package I need isn’t on the repos.
>
Then you are out of luck with that method, but I hope you are aware that
apt-get can also only be used on debian based machines for packages where a
source package exists (or do you think it knows by some black magick what
the build dependencies are for an unknown package are?).

What package do you want to build maybe we can help to figure out what you
need?

Tokolosh · April 9, 2011, 2:39am

Actually when I did the standard “zypper install …” it listed the additional packages it would install and I just installed those ones.

martin_helm · April 9, 2011, 3:41am

Tokolosh wrote:

>
> Actually when I did the standard “zypper install …” it listed the
> additional packages it would install and I just installed those ones.
>
But that are only the runtime dependencies not the build dependencies. I
wonder which package has no source. Sometimes the source has a different
package name (for example for some of the kde applications).