How To Install zypper on Fedora 34
zypper is Command line package manager using libzypp
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zypper on Fedora 34.
What is zypper
Zypper is a command line package manager tool using libzypp, which can be used to manage software for RPM based systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install zypper on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zypper.
Install zypper on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install zypper using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zypper
Install zypper on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install zypper using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zypper
How To Uninstall zypper on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the zypper package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zypper
zypper Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/logrotate.d/zypp-refresh.lr
/etc/logrotate.d/zypper.lr
/etc/zypp/zypper.conf
/usr/bin/installation_sources
/usr/bin/zypp-needs-restarting
/usr/bin/zypper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/01e2b16d7226f65c6b0268f40604c5dc2212fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/5690eb9f3b0f454afb929c5d6c326b9210dcc9
/usr/libexec/zypper
/usr/libexec/zypper/commands
/usr/sbin/zypp-refresh
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/zypper
/usr/share/doc/zypper/HACKING
/usr/share/licenses/zypper
/usr/share/licenses/zypper/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ie/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/zypper.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/zypp-refresh.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/zypper.8.gz
/usr/share/zypper
/usr/share/zypper/xml
/usr/share/zypper/xml/xmlout.rnc
/usr/share/zypper/zypper.aug
/var/log/zypper.log
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zypper on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.