Zypper Package "module" missing in 15.5

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In opensuse 15.4 and earlier there was a Yast/zypper package ‘module’ which was useful for setting up the required versions of compilers and other packages, as in:
module purge
module load gnu/7
module load netcdf/4.7.4
or I could test using a later version of the compiler by unloading gnu/7 and loading gnu/12. The ‘module’ package appears to be missing in 15.5. Has an alternative been provided?

Regards, D.

2

What you show is not a package, it is a command. If you tell us which package provided this command we may try to find out what happened to it.

3

I was able to reboot 15.3 in recovery mode (which maybe explains why the packages is marked below as not installed). The package is called Modules and the output from ‘zypper info Modules’ is:

Information for package Modules:

Repository : Main Repository
Name : Modules
Version : 3.2.10-1.29
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : SUSE LLC https://www.suse.com/
Installed Size : 316.1 KiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : Modules-3.2.10-1.29.src
Upstream URL : http://modules.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Environment Modules**
Description :
The Modules package provides for dynamic modification of a user’s
environment with module files. Each module file contains the
information needed to configure the shell for an application. Once the
package is initialized, the environment can be modified dynamically on
a per-module basis using the module command that interprets module
files. Typically, module files instruct the module command to alter or
set shell environment variables, such as PATH or MANPATH. Module files
may be shared by many users on a system and users may have their own
collection to supplement or replace the shared module files. The
modules environment is common on SGI/Crays and many workstation farms.

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And it most certainly still exists in Leap 15.5.

andrei@leap155:~> zypper se -sx Modules
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name    | Type    | Version     | Arch   | Repository
--+---------+---------+-------------+--------+----------------
  | Modules | package | 3.2.10-1.29 | x86_64 | Main Repository
andrei@leap155:~>
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Sorry - my mistake. I had carried out a search for module. If I had searched for ‘modules’ or included a search of descriptions I would have found it. D.