Can't add comunity repositories (load list)

The whole thing started with an annoying amarok bug (thought it was a bug: ASF missing), in fact the Packman repository didn’t exist at that point. (which contains the ASF module)

To add it I needed to load the, community repositories. The system already failed at that point and gave me following error message: “WARNING: Unable to download list of repositories, or no repositories defined”

I researched a bit on Google and it seemed to be a common problem…unfortunately nobody could offer a solution. (I guess the error occurred not to many users…)

By the way, I’m using Opensuse 11.4

What I’ve done:
Yast → Software management → configure → repositories → add → selected community repositories → next → ERROR: Unable to…

You know the rest. I would really appreciate it if someone established or found a solution and would share it with me.

If you need more information for a solution, please just ask.

Thank you very much :wink:

PS: I hope I’m not bothering you with simple “newbi problems”. I used K/Ubuntu for quite a bit, so I’m not used to Yast and find it at first a bit confusing. Specially this error is a real pain.>:(

I’m getting the same using Gnome 2 and 11.4. Is it due to this? → openSUSE News

It didn’t happen to me, all repositories worked fine.

“Planned outage: Saturday 30th April, 9:00 AM-5:00PM localtime (MESZ) which is 07:00-15:00 UTC”

I’m not sure, this error appeared before in other, earlier versions. If you meant gnome2, no, because I’m using KDE.

So is there somebody who has gone through this before?
→ please post solution!!!

Thanks

That’s great, but assuming, we are using the same software(opensuse 11.4), how can this error/warning appear?
Or am I just doing something wrong? I mean you just have to add them(selecting community repositories), but the list doesn’t load.

That’s great for you, but assuming, we are using the same software (opensuse 11.4), how can it be, that this error still pops up?
Or am I doing something wrong? It’s just selecting community repositories and clicking on next, but hte list doesn’t load out of some reason…

Maybe it’s related to what chrispche said and later on you will be able to load them.

Oh sorry, didn’t notice the link, You are probably right.
However it didn’t work yesterday as well, but I will just wait and tell you if this solved the problem.

So thanks to everybody for the quick reply :smiley:

On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:36:01 +0530, 13X <13X@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
wrote:

>
> Oh sorry, didn’t notice the link, You are probably right.
> However it didn’t work yesterday as well, but I will just wait and tell
> you if this solved the problem.
>
> So thanks to everybody for the quick reply :smiley:
>

just tried it now, and for me at least it works fine. funny is, i never
tried this before. when i want to add repos i usually know beforehand what
i want to add, and where to find it. if not i look through
http://download.opensuse.org or search via http://software.opensuse.org.
for those who don’t know their way around very much, these repos are
explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories and here
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories . and, you can &
should always ask in these forums to make sure you chosse the correct ones.


phani.

Surprisingly it actually works now. I really don’t know why?

What I remember I did:

I had another issue with skype not launching, therefore I installed some 32 bit packages nad now it works fine…
Really weird, because I don’t know if one thing has anything to do with another.

So if it might please answer or if this has any side effects (for example suddenly running mostly a 32 bit system though I actually installed 64 bit)

However, it would be great if someone could explain it to me, so that I know, what I’m doing.

By the way, what repositories should I install?

Thank you phani, though it surprisingly works now.

I’m sorry, but I’ve got another problem now…
I’m pretty sure, that not all sections of the community repositories show up. There are only 28 repositories, I can choose after selecting community repositories.

Is that right? Or are there really just 28? (I aearched for it on google, but I couldn’t find anything more detailed)

thanks for your time

On 2011-04-30 13:36, 13X wrote:

> It’s just selecting community
> repositories and clicking on next, but hte list doesn’t load out of some
> reason…

It is a reported bug.


Cheers / Saludos,

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

On 2011-04-30 22:36, 13X wrote:
> Is that right? Or are there really just 28?

Not all the repos are listed, only a selection.


Cheers / Saludos,

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

fair enough, thanks. :slight_smile: