Can't add comunity repositories (load list)

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#1

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.>:(

#2

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

#3

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”

#4

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

#5

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.

#6

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…

#7

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

#8

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:

#9

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.

#10

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?

#11

Thank you phani, though it surprisingly works now.

#12

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

#13

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)

#14

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)

#15

fair enough, thanks. :slight_smile: