What is the command to list the patches that are already installed?

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What version of SUSE or OpenSUSE are you using and for what programs(s)are you needing (installed) patch information on?

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Sorry for the delay. The version of SuSE we am using 11.3 and we update our servers using the Yast GUI. Our operation is predominately Windows (about 4 to 6 Linux servers and approx 250 windows server) so we don't have a Linux guru in the office, unfortunately.

I did not know that SuSE varied that much from version to version, so I assumed that it was core commands we the same. Since we used the GUI to apply the updates and we have an alert after the updates were installed, we were looking for a command line that we could use "|grep <name of update>" to view if it was already installed.

Any ideas?

Hi...

I'm not sure if it will help but take a look at the section "Updating Software with Zypper" here.

Someone else on the forum might have a better answer but if not, you can try asking at the SUSE forum here, or the OpenSUSE forum here.

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this IS SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 11 service pack 3
SELS 11sp3

and NOT "OpenSUSE 11.3 " end of life back in Jan of 2012

one you have to have a support contract for and the other is long past it's End Of Life

opensuse 11.3
opensuse 11.4
opensuse 12.1
opensuse 12.2
opensuse 12.3
opensuse 13.1

are all unsupported
https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime

as for patches
did you install any ?
and rebuild the rpm's ?

there are drpm's but they are not the default

if you need to know the last updates installed
look in the zypper install log in
/var/log

please read the zypper manual page

Hi,

Do you recall what the alert said? Was it an error, or just a notification, for example saying that a reboot is required? Alternately do you know which patches these were?

Generally if an update failed, it should still be on the list of available updates, so running the update again should answer your question.

You might also find more info in the logs - look at /var/log/zypp/history and /var/log/zypper.log.

Regards,

Clifford

this did help to list what was needed, but I think I found the command. It ended up being . However the history will help to allow me to see a failure if it happens.

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