zypper yzpper question.

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All,

In /usr/bin zypper has a symbolic link to yzpper. Does anyone know why this is there or if it can safely be removed?

Thanks

Tim

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I do not know why that is there.

I did a google search for “yzpper”. It came up with some results, but they don’t actually answer the question.

My advice – just leave it there. It isn’t hurting anything. In any case, if there is an update to “zypper” that will also reinstall “yzpper”.

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To me it’s obviously there for the benefit of speedy touch typists who transpose key pairs and don’t notice before hitting <ENTER>. I do the transpose thing quite often, far more often here and doing email than cmdline typing.

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Please note that in the German std keyboard “Y” and “Z” are swapped compared to the EN_US one and SUSE has as many German as English native speakers among its users…

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I assume the same as people guess above, just for the typo users.

But when that is the case, I would also assume that yzpper is a symbolic link to zypper and not the other way around as you report. (but NOT show >:().

I did not check myself. ATM I am on openSUSE 31.1:

boven:~ # cd /usr/bin
boven:/usr/bin # l zypper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1500328 Aug  1  2014 zypper*
boven:/usr/bin # l yzpper
ls: cannot access yzpper: No such file or directory
boven:/usr/bin #

My conclusion is that it does not exist there at all.

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Tumbleweed and Leap-15.0

rayh@y3:~> lh /usr/bin/[zy]*pper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    6 Jun 22 14:52 /usr/bin/yzpper -> zypper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.9M Jun 22 14:52 /usr/bin/zypper
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Thanks for the information.

Thus it is as I assumed and not as the OP posted.