Say I've added a repository using zypper ar. Then, I've gone and installed multiple packages from that repository, but now I want to remove all of them.
Is there a command that allows me to remove all the packages that I've installed just from that specific repository?
I think there is no such command. You can list packages from specific repository:
zypper search --installed-only --repo devel:tools
or all orphaned packages if you've already removed that repository:
zypper packages --orphaned
Then you could try to cut package names from the output and pass it to zypper remove if it's worth the effort.
--orphaned option, but this might work: zypper packages -i -R: it lists the installed package in Reverse order of repository.
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May 31, 2014 at 10:57
--orphaned was added in zypper 1.9.2 (github.com/openSUSE/zypper/issues/34)
You can use a combination of zypper search, awk and xargs to remove all packages from a repository. For example:
zypper se --repo openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Debug --installed | awk '/^i(\+|\s)/ {print $3}' | xargs sudo zypper rm
awk '/^i(\+|\s)/ {print $3}' to match all installed packages (i or i+)
--installed.
-i or --installed-only. But also I've search for i and i+ at the beggining to skip first few rows (Loading repository data...). Maybe there are better methods, to skip first 5 rows but if you already use regex... ;)
se [options] [query] so your solution didn't work.
This line works fine for me
zypper search --installed-only --repo yourbadrepo|awk {'print $3'}|xargs sudo zypper rm
If you want to risk or use in a script, the -n option avoid confirm(can break deps)
zypper search --installed-only --repo yourbadrepo|awk {'print $3'}|xargs sudo zypper -n rm
