openSUSE and SUSE packages (zypper)

The zypper manager installs and removes packages on openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise with zypper. It uses sudo when mise is not running as root.

[bootstrap.packages]
"zypper:libopenssl-devel" = "latest"
"zypper:ripgrep" = "latest"
"zypper:bash" = "5.2.37-2.1" # version-release pin

mise bootstrap packages apply --manager zypper --dry-run
mise bootstrap packages apply --manager zypper

Prerequisites

The manager is available on Linux when both zypper and rpm are on PATH. On other machines, its entries show as skipped.

mise runs zypper directly and does not use transactional-update. On systems with a read-only root filesystem, such as openSUSE MicroOS or Aeon, install packages with transactional-update pkg install instead of declaring them here.

Package names

Use the package name, such as libopenssl-devel. mise checks installed state with rpm -q, which looks up package names, not capabilities.

Version pins

mise passes a pin to zypper as name=version or name=version-release. A version-only pin accepts any release of that exact version; it does not match a version prefix. A pinned install adds --oldpackage, so it can downgrade.

The pin above is only an example. Choose a version from the host's enabled repositories; mise does not add repositories or fetch archived RPMs.

What mise runs

Operation	Command
Check installed state (no sudo)	rpm -q <packages>
Install	zypper --non-interactive install [--oldpackage] -- <packages>
apply --update	zypper --non-interactive refresh first
Upgrade	zypper --non-interactive refresh, then the install command for installed packages
Remove	zypper --non-interactive remove -- <packages>

Without --update, zypper follows each repository's automatic refresh setting. Your zypper dependency, license, and signature policies still apply, and non-interactive mode fails when a question has no automatic answer.

If zypper exits with 102 (reboot required), mise prints a warning. If it exits with 103 (zypper updated itself and must restart), mise retries the command up to twice. Any other nonzero exit, including skipped repositories and failed RPM scripts, is an error.

Remove packages

[bootstrap.packages]
"zypper:ripgrep" = { state = "absent" }

apply removes an installed package with zypper --non-interactive remove. An entry that is already absent needs nothing. mise bootstrap packages apply --dry-run prints the zypper remove command without running it. To see which dependent packages zypper would remove as well, run that command yourself with zypper's own --dry-run option.