Adding a repository via term?

adrienk · April 13, 2011, 3:03pm

I wanted to add a repository so I took the steps of zypper ar -f ((repo directory)) and got:

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4
If only one argument is used, it must be a URI pointing to a .repo file.
addrepo (ar) [options] <URI> <alias>
addrepo (ar) [options] <file.repo>

Add a repository to the sytem. The repository can be specified by its URI or can be read from specified .repo file (even remote).

  Command options:
-r, --repo <file.repo>  Just another means to specify a .repo file to read.
-t, --type <type>       Type of repository (yast2, rpm-md, plaindir).
-d, --disable           Add the repository as disabled.
-c, --check             Probe URI.
-C, --no-check          Don't probe URI, probe later during refresh.
-n, --name <name>       Specify descriptive name for the repository.
-k, --keep-packages     Enable RPM files caching.
-K, --no-keep-packages  Disable RPM files caching.
-f, --refresh           Enable autorefresh of the repository.

Um my commands are correct so why isn’t it working? upon going zypper ref it doesnt display in the “updated” list

martin_helm · April 13, 2011, 3:39pm

adrienk wrote:

> zypper ar -f
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4


zypper ar -f
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4 X11

Just give it a short name after the url

robin_listas · April 13, 2011, 3:50pm

On 2011-04-13 15:06, adrienk wrote:
>
> I wanted to add a repository so I took the steps of zypper ar -f ((repo
> directory)) and got:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4
> If only one argument is used, it must be a URI pointing to a .repo file.
> addrepo (ar) [options] <URI> <alias>
> addrepo (ar) [options] <file.repo>

Check with a command line browers (links, lynx) that there is a .repo file
in there. It is giving you the reason, so do your part.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

Edward_Iii · April 13, 2011, 4:06pm

Hello adrienk,

Currently you’re using the addrepo command wrongly.
Either you miss an argument or you should change the URI.

If you use “zypper ar” with only one argument it should be an URI pointing to a .repo file.
In your case it would become: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4/X11:XOrg.repo

The second option is to use two arguments, one containing the link and the other an alias for the repo.
In your case it would become something like this:

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4 X11

X11 would become the name of the repo.

Good luck!

caf4926 · April 13, 2011, 4:21pm

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