It turns out that we would need this "RPM provides" feature in zypper, if we want to replace TexLive's own package manager TLMGR in texliveonfly. Here is another example of search that requires this feature. While many of the TexLive packages have the name of Latex package in the package name ("texlive-package"), it is not always the case. If I need the style file "palatino.sty", and I search the package names for "palatino", then I find "texlive-palatino" and "texlive-palatino-fonts". But none of these RPMs provide the style file palatino.sty. Only searching with YaST2 for palatino.sty with "RPM provides" we find that the package containing this file is "texlive-psnfss". How can we do this search with zypper? Thanks, Carlos FL On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Carlos F. Lange wrote:

BTW, there is a version of "texliveonfly" among the openSUSE packages, but it is not working properly. Will submit bug report.

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Carlos F. Lange wrote:

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I wish we had a version of "texliveonfly" to automatically retrieve and install the right RPM package that provides any missing styles and packages for LaTeX.

In the absence of that, I would like to know how I can search for those missing style and package files from the command line using zypper. In YaST I can set the option "RPM provides" and find, for example, that the RPM package "texlive-a0poster" provides the style file "a0size".

I tried the zypper option "what-provides", but it does not seem to do what I was looking for.

Any suggestion on how to search what the RPM provides with zypper?

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