13.1 - Problem connecting to a software origin

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#1

Hi to you all,

new Linux user here. I bought an OS-free laptop from MSI and just installed OpenSuse 13.1 64bits on it. It worked perfectly well! Wifi access, screen, touchpad, everything is working smoothly, I’m impressed!

My only problem is with upgrading/software update: I get notifications with the following message:

File ‘/repodata/repomd.xml’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/’

I get the same message when doing sudo zypper dup.

And indeed, going the above address, there is no /repodata directory nor repomd.xml file.

Since I did not change any built-in repo list, what’s happening and how can I change this? zypper complains with a lot of missing dependencies and that might come from this…

#2

On Fri 28 Feb 2014 07:36:03 PM CST, PhilippeSigaud wrote:

Hi to you all,

new Linux user here. I bought an OS-free laptop from MSI and just
installed OpenSuse 13.1 64bits on it. It worked perfectly well! Wifi
access, screen, touchpad, everything is working smoothly, I’m impressed!

My only problem is with upgrading/software update: I get notifications
with the following message:

File ‘/repodata/repomd.xml’ not found on medium
‘http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/’

I get the same message when doing sudo zypper dup.

And indeed, going the above address, there is no /repodata directory nor
repomd.xml file.

Since I did not change any built-in repo list, what’s happening and how
can I change this? zypper complains with a lot of missing dependencies
and that might come from this…

Hi
You could be redirected to an incomplete mirror with respect to your
location. Plus you don’t need to use dup, that’s for a distribution
upgrade, not an update.

Can you as root user force a cache rebuild and see if that helps;


zypper ref -f
zypper lu
zypper up

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#3

Thanks Malcolm for the swift answer,

that did not change anything. Still the same kind of message:

File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/'

But indeed going at http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/, there is no /repodata dir.

Ah, found it: it’s in the /suse directory.

So the web address zypper is using is false. How can I add /suse after non-oss and oss?

#4

That should not be necessary. zypper should append the /suse itself autmatically if needed.
Not sure why it’s not working for you, but maybe there’s a different problem.

If you do want to try to append it, either edit the corresponding text file in /etc/zypp/repos.d/, or change the URL in YaST->Software Repositories.

#5

I did it. Strangely, on the 8 repos listed in YaST, only 5 needed an added /suse at the end. But now everything works!
I really wonder why there is such a difference with everybody else, particularly since I did not change any option while installing.

Anyway…

Thanks guys!