Inconsistency in zypper

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#1

Hi,

i have a problem with the zypper-database. Package management in YaST claims it has 2 versions of libpoppler-qt4 installed:
libpoppler-qt4-4-0.24.4-7.1
libpoppler-qt4-4-0.24.4-9.1

When I query rpm:

Dell:/home/conny # rpm -qa | grep libpoppler-qt4
libpoppler-qt4-4-0.24.4-9.1.x86_64

When I verify zypper:

Dell:/home/conny # zypper ve --details 
Daten des Repositories laden ...
Installierte Pakete lesen ...

Das folgende Paket wird GELÖSCHT:
  libpoppler-qt4-4  0.24.4-7.1  x86_64  openSUSE


1 zu entfernendes Paket.
Nach dem Vorgang werden 421,1 KiB freigegeben.
Einige der Abhängigkeiten der installierten Pakete sind beschädigt. Um diese Abhängigkeiten zu reparieren, müssen die folgenden Aktionen ausgeführt werden:
Fortfahren? [j/n/? zeigt alle Optionen] (j): j
(1/1) libpoppler-qt4-4-0.24.4-7.1 wird entfernt ......................................................................................................[Fehler]
Entfernung von (43978)libpoppler-qt4-4-0.24.4-7.1.x86_64(@System) fehlgeschlagen:
Fehler: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fehlgeschlagen: error: package libpoppler-qt4-4-0.24.4-7.1.x86_64 is not installed

Obviously zypper shows a package that does not exist. Is there a way to rebuild the zypper database?

#2

First, I’d recommend that you first try updating your system, the command often resolves inconsistencies which go beyond simply reporting packages, various parts of your system may point to old versions incorrectly.

zypper up

After the above which should ensure an internally consistent system, if you still see package management issues, you can clean (purge) stored rpm packages and related metadata with the following command. This is safe to do, if your system needs the removed package or data in the future, it will simply be downloaded again.

zypper clean -a

HTH,
tSU

#3

clean -a was the one I was looking for, thanks!