zypper: How to list different available versions of a package?

Question

I want to get a list of all available versions of a package, the same list that you can see in Yast, but using zypper.

OpenSuse 13.1, zypper 1.9.16

Answer 1

Use search -s. For example, sudo zypper search -s fortune might give this output:

Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name    | Type       | Version      | Arch   | Repository                    
--+---------+------------+--------------+--------+-------------------------------
i | fortune | package    | 1.99.1-6.1.4 | x86_64 | 13.1-OpenSUSE-InstallOss      
i | fortune | package    | 1.99.1-6.1.4 | x86_64 | Tumbleweed-OpenSUSE-InstallOss
v | fortune | package    | 1.99.1-4.1.2 | x86_64 | 12.3-OpenSUSE-Oss             
v | fortune | package    | 1.99.1-6.1.4 | i586   | 13.1-OpenSUSE-InstallOss      
v | fortune | package    | 1.99.1-6.1.4 | i586   | Tumbleweed-OpenSUSE-InstallOss
v | fortune | package    | 1.99.1-4.1.2 | i586   | 12.3-OpenSUSE-Oss             
  | fortune | srcpackage | 1.99.1-6.1.4 | noarch | 13.1-OpenSUSE-SourceOss       
  | fortune | srcpackage | 1.99.1-6.1.4 | noarch | Tumbleweed-OpenSUSE-SourceOss 
  | fortune | srcpackage | 1.99.1-4.1.2 | noarch | 12.3-OpenSUSE-SourceOss       

Answer 2

If you use this trying to search for a package with a very common name you will have problems in the log output.

Let's say you want to downgrade Visual Studio code.

1. Get the repository alias, this case code which is also the package name
2. `zypper search -r code -s code Loading repository data... Reading installed packages...

S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository ---+------------------+---------+-----------------------+--------+------------------- i+ | code | package | 1.83.1-1696982959.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.83.0-1696350893.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.82.3-1696245089.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.82.2-1694671900.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.82.1-1694163779.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.82.0-1694039344.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.81.1-1691620770.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.81.0-1690980963.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.80.2-1690491680.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.80.1-1689183644.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.80.0-1688479104.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.79.2-1686734266.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.79.1-1686587726.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.79.0-1686149197.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.78.2-1683731087.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.78.1-1683194632.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.78.0-1683145689.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.50.0-1602051243.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.49.3-1601661990.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.49.2-1600965486.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.49.1-1600299354.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code v | code | package | 1.39.1-1570750844.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code | code-exploration | package | 1.84.0-1696907734.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code | code-exploration | package | 1.82.0-1693249536.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code | code-exploration | package | 1.82.0-1691382892.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code | code-exploration | package | 1.82.0-1691163578.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code | code-exploration | package | 1.82.0-1690973412.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code | code-exploration | package | 1.82.0-1690815369.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code | code-exploration | package | 1.81.0-1690458479.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code | code-exploration | package | 1.81.0-1690360464.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code | code-exploration | package | 1.81.0-1690275138.el7 | x86_64 | Visual Studio Code `