OPI

OBS Package Installer

Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE:

1. openSUSE Build Service
2. Packman
3. Popular packages for Microsoft and other vendors

System Requirements

• openSUSE Tumbleweed, openSUSE Leap 42.1+, SLE 12+
• python3
• python3-requests
• python3-lxml
• python3-termcolor

If you want to use dnf instead of zypper, you also need:

• dnf
• libdnf-repo-config-zypp

Install

openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap

sudo zypper install opi

SLE

# eg. for SLE 15 SP4
sudo SUSEConnect -p PackageHub/15.4/x86_64

sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install opi

Use

Run:

opi [package_name]

Example:

opi filezilla

Demo:

Using DNF instead of Zypper

If you want to, you can use DNF instead of Zypper. To do this, change the content of /etc/opi.cfg:

backend = dnf

If you want to go back to Zypper, just change the value of backend back to zypp.

Packages from Other Repositories

Packman Codecs (enable you to play MP4 videos and YouTube)

opi packman

# or

opi codecs

usage: opi [-h] [-v] [-r] [query [query ...]]

openSUSE Package Installer
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Search and install almost all packages available for openSUSE and SLE:
  1. openSUSE Build Service
  2. Packman
  3. Popular packages for various vendors

positional arguments:
  query                 can be any package name or part of it and will be
                        searched for both at the openSUSE Build Service and
                        Packman.
                        If multiple query arguments are provided only results
                        matching all of them are returned.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -r, --reversed-output
                        print the search results in reverse

Also these queries can be used to install packages from various other vendors:
  anydesk           AnyDesk remote access
  atom              Atom Text Editor
  brave             Brave web browser
  chrome            Google Chrome web browser
  codecs            Media Codecs from Packman and official repo
  dotnet            Microsoft .NET
  megasync          Mega Desktop App
  msedge-beta       Microsoft Edge Beta
  msedge-dev        Microsoft Edge Dev
  msteams           Microsoft Teams
  plex              Plex Media Server
  skype             Microsoft Skype
  slack             Slack messenger
  sublime           Editor for code, markup and prose
  teamviewer        TeamViewer remote access
  vivaldi           Vivaldi web browser
  vscode            Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  vscodium          Visual Studio Codium
  yandex-disk       Yandex.Disk cloud storage client
  yandex-browser    Yandex web browser
  zoom              Zoom Video Conference