Sometimes on an openSUSE box I want to be able to pre-download the packages and install at a later date. By default, it downloads each package and installs it before the moving onto the next one. If the update is interrupted, then you can end up with a broken system (it’s happened a few times).
Now I’ve found out how to enable cache and download only with zypper
Zypper can enable cache on a per-repository basis (pretty neat), or you can set them all up like so:
zypper mr -k -all
Now that you have cache enabled, just do a dry-run which will download everything, but not install them:
zypper -l -y update --dry-run
And there you are..
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