I say recent because this wasn’t a problem until so. All my repositories for my opensuse 11 were fine, out-of-the-box defaults with packman and dvd iso additions, until yesterday and today i get the dreaded invalid metadata error at start-up disallowing from updating the system.
Ive tried checking if the problem was from one specific repository by disabling the one mentioned in the error message (from yast control center -> software repositories), but the error presists on to the next listed repository (also allowed me to understand that the error was only picking up the first listed repository, since its the first its got to download updates from).
I then noticed the error mentioned ‘unable to download’, so checked my internet and its fine as always. Also checked if i could solve the problem using software manager but on launch the manager pops the same ‘unable to dl valid metadata from repo url’, and after abort/next and the manager opening no upgrades are listed and cant install any listed uninstalled software.
Ive also gone to the bugzilla list of bugs for opensuse 11 and similar bugs show up but the help comments are geared towards solving the problem through one of the ways described above which ive figured aren’t the way im to solve my problem.
To sum up, its the error that unables me to do updates but the problem is neither the internet connection or the repository urls (because they are the listed defaults as explained above). Im sorry if this is a trivial problem, but its a trivial problem thats putting a dent on the evolution of my sweet lizard.
ps im a little noobish (new to oss) so could explanations of possible solutions be noobish geared, thx
opensuse11 host, straight out of box, not much done other then mplayer and dvd source repo turned into iso source repo (oh and bridge-utils for bridging, which was successful hence the fine n dandy net connection)
Hi
You can just disable your oss, non-oss and update repositories pointing
to download.opensuse.org and re create using mirrors close to you from
this link; Mirrors Released
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openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
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Unclear how one uses repos on the list of mirror systems in smart. Can you provide a few hints to someone who is smart-challenged, but otherwise Linux-literate? I’ve tried adding repos against a few of the mirrors, but so far, have had no success.
You can use “smart” also for repository management.
thejaswi:~ # smart channel --help
This command allows one to manipulate channels. Channels are
used as sources of information about installed and available
packages. Depending on the channel type, a different backend
is used to handle interactions with the operating system and
extraction of information from the given channel.
The following channel types are available:
apt-deb - APT-DEB Repository
apt-rpm - APT-RPM Repository
deb-dir - DEB Directory
deb-sys - DPKG Installed Packages
mirrors - Mirror Information
red-carpet - Red Carpet Channel
rpm-dir - RPM Directory
rpm-hdl - RPM Header List
rpm-md - RPM MetaData
rpm-sys - RPM Installed Packages
slack-site - Slackware Repository
slack-sys - Slackware Installed Packages
up2date-mirrors - Mirror Information (up2date format)
urpmi - URPMI Repository
yast2 - YaST2 Repository
Use --help-type <type> for more information.
Options:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit
--add Argument is an alias and one or more key=value pairs
defining a channel, or a filename/url pointing to a channel
description in the same format used by --show, or a
directory path where autodetection will be tried
--set Argument is an alias, and one or more key=value pairs
modifying a channel
--remove Arguments are channel aliases to be removed
--remove-all Remove all existent channels
--show Show channels with given aliases, or all channels if no
arguments were given
--edit Edit channels in editor set by $editor
--enable Enable channels with given aliases
--disable Disable channels with given aliases
-y, --yes Execute without asking
--help-type=TYPE Show further information about given type
Examples:
smart channel --help-type apt-rpm
smart channel --add mydb type=rpm-sys name="RPM Database"
smart channel --add mychannel type=apt-rpm name="Some repository" \
baseurl=http://somewhere.com/pub/repos components=extra
smart channel --set mychannel priority=-100
smart channel --disable mychannel
smart channel --remove mychannel
smart channel --show
smart channel --show mychannel > mychannel.txt
smart channel --add ./mychannel.txt
smart channel --add http://some.url/mychannel.txt
smart channel --add /mnt/cdrom
You should be using “smart channel --add” option to add the mirrors. See the examples above and it should be straightforward.
Post back if you face any problems.