Artifactory supports Zypper client with rpm repository. However, using this client we can only install the SUSE packages as mentioned below.
Introduction
What is Zypper?
Zypper is a command-line package manager in the OpenSUSE Linux distribution which makes use of libzypp . Zypper provides functions like repository access, dependency solving, package installation, etc.
I have taken myart.jfrog.io as an example. You can replace myart.jfrog.io with your artifactory instance when you try at your end.
1) Create a rpm repository and name it as rpm-remote-suse and point it to http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1
2) The command to add the Artifactory rpm remote repository and resolve the packages from it.
$ zypper ar https://myart.jfrog.io/artifactory/rpm-remote-suse/ update
Adding repository 'update' .............................................................................................................................................................................................................[done]
Repository 'update' successfully added
URI : https://myart.jfrog.io/artifactory/rpm-remote-suse/
Enabled : Yes
GPG Check : Yes
Autorefresh : No
Priority : 99 (default priority)
3) Installing an example package with zypper client which will resolve from the Artifactory remote repository and will be cached in the following location in Artifactory.
https://myart.jfrog.io/artifactory/rpm-remote-suse-cache/rpm/
4) How to install a package using the Zypper client?
Below command will install the MozillaFirefox package.
$ zypper in MozillaFirefox
For any reference related to Zypper client commands, we can follow this external link .