Zypper- Problem with OSS repo.

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Hello,
When I try to install anything with Zypper, if I enable the openSUSE-12.3-Oss repository, it halts at “Reading installed packages”! this is a weird problem… because I’m using openSUSE 12.3 for months and I just had a new installation and update of it. this problem became after the first update… and it remains only for the mentioned repository. not for anything else…

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also, I’ve deleted and added the repository again, but it wasn’t useful. same problem… do you think I should reinstall Zypper? if this is the solution, how??

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mohamad kav wrote:
>
> also, I’ve deleted and added the repository again, but it wasn’t useful.
> same problem… do you think I should reinstall Zypper? if this is the
> solution, how??
>
>
can you try


zypper clean -all
zypper ref -f

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GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

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I have a bash script that includes many fix it features for use with Zypper. Have a look here: Zypper Command - Zypper Package Management Menu System - Version 2.00 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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Well I tried that, but unfortunately, no use… do you know an option to reinstall the **** zypper?! I have no idea of the problem…

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On Sun 28 Jul 2013 02:46:01 AM CDT, mohamad kav wrote:

vazhavandan;2575008 Wrote:
> mohamad kav wrote:
> >
> > also, I’ve deleted and added the repository again, but it wasn’t
> useful.
> > same problem… do you think I should reinstall Zypper? if this is
> the
> > solution, how??
> >
> >
> can you try
> >
Code:

> >
> zypper clean -all
> zypper ref -f
>

> >
> –
> GNOME 3.6.2
> openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
> Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop
Well I tried that, but unfortunately, no use… do you know an option
to reinstall the **** zypper?! I have no idea of the problem…

Hi
You should be able to pull in zypper from the update repo;


zypper in -f zypper libzypp

What other repositories do you have?


zypper lr

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Hey, I had a similar problem as yours and got it working (my issue was the update repo). I did 2 things, but I’m not sure what fixed it.

  1. I refreshed the zypper database using this command in root
rpm --rebuilddb && **zypper** clean -a && **zypper** ref
  1. I uninstalled and then reinstalled the update repo (seems like you already tried this)

My post is here if you want to have a look at it.

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This indicates that the problem is certainly not with the zypper installation. By process of elimination it’s most likely with the openSUSE-12.3-Oss repository setup.

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Try to update zypper with:

sudo zypper --disable-system-resolvables in -f zypper libzypp libsolv-tools

Maybe it works then?