removing a repo

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I wasn’t paying proper attention when adding a repo to yast and need to find the file were the info is saved to delete this.

The problem is that whenever i use yast it comes up with an error code saying that it can’t find the data for the ‘problem’ repo. Have tried zypper rm but that comes up with a similar error advising that the data is in a format that was not expected.

My thinking is to track the file were the yast repo source details are saved, delete this and then just add the repos that i use back. Any ideas?

Many thanks

wre yast records repo remove the

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I wouldn’t go for your option. The repo and package management is quite a complex system, manual interference may bring more trouble.
Please post the exact message, and post the output of


zypper lr -d

‘zypper rm’ is not for removing repos, it’s for packages.

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Thanks for posting. My repo list is:-

opensuse:/home/garry # zypper lr -d

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

—±-----------------------------±------------------------±--------±--------±---------±---------±-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | download.opensuse.org-update | Main Update Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.4 |
2 | ftp.uni-erlangen.de-suse | packman | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/mirrors/packman/suse/11.3/ |
3 | iso | iso | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | iso:///?iso=openSUSE-DVD-Build0845-x86_64.iso&url=file:///windows/G/ |
4 | kde | kde | Yes | Yes | 99 | plaindir | dir:///home/garry/kde |
5 | kde_3.5 | kde 3.5 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_Factory |
6 | kde_4.5_factory | kde 4.5 factory | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Factory/openSUSE_Factory |
7 | mozilla_factory | mozilla factory | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/mozilla/SUSE_Factory |
8 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-1.27 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-1.27 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr1,/dev/sr0 |
9 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /factory-snapshot/repo/non-oss |
10 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Oss | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /factory-snapshot/repo/oss |
opensuse:/home/garry #

The problem one is not listed.

Is there a zypper comand that will remove everything in my repos?

Many thanks

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found the folders in etc/zypp and sorted the problem

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But you should not remove a repo by simply removing its file in /etc/zypp/repos.d, but via YaST (there’s a module for repository management) oy using zypper. The syntax for zypper is

zypper rr #|URL|alias

[rr = remove repo]

…so for example in case you’d like to remove the KDE3.5 repo:

zypper rr 5
## or
zypper rr http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE%3a/KDE3/openSUSE_Factory/
## or
zypper rr kde_3.5
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:36:03 +0530, gropiuskalle
<gropiuskalle@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> But you should not remove a repo by simply removing its file in
> /etc/zypp/repos.d, but via YaST (there’s a module for repository
> management) oy using zypper.

it may seem that zypper ar / lr -d does the same thing, add or remove
entries from the repos.d/ directory. but there’s at least one thing more
they do: add a log entry, which may come very helpful in the future –
when you’re wondering why things don’t work as expected, or what exactly
you removed. you may very well forget deleting those files, but those log
entries remain.

–
phani.

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it was the repo.d file that was damaged due to me making a mess-up adding a repo to it and the problem repo was not being listed in yast or zypper (so couldn’t be removed from either in the normal way).

deleting everything in etc/zypper wiped everything - so did the job