I Don't understand the problem, really, but here are a few comments that might help explain what I don't understand: 1. "zypper se -t application" is a broken feature, it only shows applications corresponding to installed appdata on a given system and randomly a few not installed ones. So if calibre doesn't show up when it isn't installed on zypper's application search, that may not be surprising. On my TW system :~> zypper se -t application calibre Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... No matching items found. 2. zypper se calibre Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Summary | Type --+---------+------------------------------+-------- | calibre | EBook Management Application | package So not really clear where the problem is. Fwiw, my changes are here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff/Documentation:Tools/calibre?linkrev=base&rev=352