How to Install and Uninstall star Package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "star" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install star on openSuSE Tumbleweed


    
        
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                sudo zypper refresh
            
                    
    
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                star
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "star" package

Learn how to uninstall star on openSuSE Tumbleweed:


    
        
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                sudo zypper remove
            
                        
                star
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the star package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Information for package star:
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Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : star
Version : 1.6.1-48.2
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 1.1 MiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : schily-2023.09.28-48.2.src
Upstream URL : https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools
Summary : tar implementation compliant to POSIX.1-2001
Description :
Star is a tar-like archiver (tar standing for Tape ARchiver).
Features:
* FIFO to keep the tape streaming
* Remote tape support
* Accurate sparse files
* Pattern matcher to archive and extract a subset of files
* User tailorable interface for comparing tar archives against file trees
* Path names up to 1024 bytes may be archived
* Stores and restores all 3 file times (even creation time). With POSIX.1-2001,
the times are in nanosecond granularity.