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Running openSUSE 11.0.

Everything worked fine until I uninstalled a package (JACK, to be specific). The uninstall appeared to work without problem.

But now when attempting to run openSUSE updater I get this message:

Refresh failed: Error: Could not refresh repository 'openSUSE-11.0-Updates': Can't open /var/cache/zypp/solv/openSUSE-11.0-Updates/cookie

Any way to recover?

–
Ian

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Not nice, but AFAIK this will solve the problem:

Start Yast - Software - Software repostiries, and remove the 11.0 update repo. Click OK to exit.
Now, from the same screen Configure Online Update. Add the update server and everything should be OK again.

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From “man zypper”:

   clean (cc) [options] [alias|#|URI] ...
          Clean the local caches for all known or specified repositories. By default,
           only caches of downloaded packages are cleaned.

   -m, --metadata
          Clean repository metadata cache instead of package cache.

   -M, --raw-metadata
          Clean repository raw metadata cache instead of package cache.

   -a, --all
          Clean both repository metadata and package caches.
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Perfect! Many thanks.

–
Ian