Libzypp is the package management library that powers applications like yast, zypper and the opensuse/sle implementation of packagekit.

libzypp provides all the functionality for a package manager:

- an api for package repository management, supporting most common
repository metadata formats and signed repositories
- an api for solving packages, products, patterns and patches (installation,
removal, update and distribution upgrade operations) dependencies, with
additional features like locking
- an api for comitting the transaction to the system over a rpm target;
supporting deltarpm calculation, media changing and installation order
calculation
- an api for browsing available and installed software, with some facilities
for programs with an user interface
- a suite of maintained solving testcases representing common and uncommon
operations on linux software management
this package contains the debugging symbols for the libzypp library. they are installed into /usr/lib/debug and will automatically be used by gdb.