| PackageDescription | openSUSE/SLES package management system library (documentation)
libzypp is the package management library that powers applications like
YaST, zypper and the openSUSE/SLE implementation of PackageKit.
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libzypp provides all the functionality for a package manager:
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- an API for package repository management, supporting most common
repository metadata formats and signed repositories
- an API for solving packages, products, patterns and patches (installation,
removal, update and distribution upgrade operations) dependencies, with
additional features like locking
- an API for comitting the transaction to the system over a rpm target;
supporting deltarpm calculation, media changing and installation order
calculation
- an API for browsing available and installed software, with some facilities
for programs with an user interface
- a suite of maintained solving testcases representing common and uncommon
operations on Linux software management
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This package contains the API documentation of the libzypp library. |