Zypper-Onlinesearch

Zypper-Onlinesearch brings the ability to find packages from software.opensuse.org and Packman, directly in your terminal.

Basically it is just a command-line frontend to these search engines, it executes a query to them, arrange the results and display them in a table or report view.

There are a couple of options to install this application.

Install it as a regular Ruby gem with:

$ gem install zypper-onlinesearch

This application has been packaged in my personal OBS repository so you can install It as a common RPM package:

• Add the repository URL in your list;
• install the package from Yast or Zypper.

Being the repository URL slightly changing from a version to another, I included all the steps in the related project page at my blog.

To query for the string :

$ onlinesearch -s <string>

When the pages are returnerd they are identified in the Page field and can be read with the -p switch:

$ onlinesearch -p <page>

To list the links from that page:

$ onlinesearch -l <page>,<link_number>

Where to start:

$ onlinesearch --help

More info is available at:

• the Zypper-Onlinesearch Project page;
• the Zypper-Onlinesearch Github wiki.