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/** \mainpage Welcome to libzypp
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\section intro Introduction
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Welcome to the libzypp documentation.
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libzypp is the package management library that powers applications like YaST, zypper and the openSUSE/SLE implementation of PackageKit.
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\section whatis What is libzypp?
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libzypp provides all the functionality for a package manager:
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- An API for package repository management, supporting most common repository metadata formats and signed repositories.
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- An API for solving packages, products, patterns and patches (installation, removal, update and distribution upgrade operations) dependencies, with additional features like locking.
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- An API for commiting the transaction to the system over a rpm target. Supporting deltarpm calculation, media changing and installation order calculation.
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- An API for browsing available and installed software, with some facilities for programs with an user interface.
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- A suite of maintained solving testcases representing common and uncommon operations on Linux software management
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\section impl Implementation
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libzypp is implemented as a C++ library with experimental bindings available for python and ruby.
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\section otherfunc Other functionality offered by libzypp
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Most of libzypp functionality is implemented over components provided also by libzypp:
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- Media abstraction library offering a common interface over local files, http,ftp,iso,nfs and other protocols.
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\section thirdpfunc 3rd party software libzypp is based on
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Additionally, some functionality libzypp uses is based on 3rd party libraries:
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- SAT solver library, for dependency solving and repository data storage and querying
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- curl, that powers some protocols of the media abstraction component
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- boost, for misc. utilities like shared pointers, functors and algorithms.
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\section join Join the community
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Visit our web site at : http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp or #zypp on irc.freenode.net
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\section license License
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Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Ximian, Inc. |
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Copyright (C) 2005 SUSE Linux Products GmbH |
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ZYpp is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 |
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or later. The text of the GNU General Public License can be viewed at |
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html |
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As a special exception, you have permission to link this program |
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with the following libraries and distribute executables, as long as you |
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follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the |
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software in the executable aside from the following libraries: |
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- OpenSSL (http://www.openssl.org) |
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\endcode
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