(newbie) I get this error while trying to install audacity with a .ymp file

[zeesuse]

when i click retry the error happen again and again so i just aborted it

[ionmich]

Try this…sudo zypper in audacity

[zeesuse]

i just got the same error but in the terminal this time, should i abort, retry or ignore?

zee@localhost:~> sudo zypper in audacity
[sudo] password for root: 
Refreshing service 'NVIDIA'.
Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 3 recommended packages were automatically selected:
  audacity-lang fluid-soundfont-gs timidity

The following 16 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  audacity audacity-lang fluid-soundfont-gs libFLAC++10 libFLAC++10-x86-64-v3 libpcre2-32-0 libportmidi2
  libsuil-0-0 libvamp-hostsdk3 libwx_baseu_net-suse-nostl10_0_0 libwx_baseu-suse-nostl10_0_0
  libwx_baseu_xml-suse-nostl10_0_0 libwx_gtk3u_core-suse-nostl10_0_0 libwx_gtk3u_html-suse-nostl10_0_0
  libwx_gtk3u_qa-suse-nostl10_0_0 timidity

16 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 12.7 MiB. Already cached: 3.9 MiB. After the operation, additional 55.3 MiB will be
used.

Backend:  classic_rpmtrans
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y
In cache libFLAC++10-1.4.3-1.5.x86_64.rpm                                                (1/16),  62.6 KiB    
In cache libpcre2-32-0-10.43-3.1.x86_64.rpm                                              (2/16), 223.7 KiB    
In cache libvamp-hostsdk3-2.10.0-1.24.x86_64.rpm                                         (3/16), 100.0 KiB    
In cache libFLAC++10-x86-64-v3-1.4.3-1.5.x86_64.rpm                                      (4/16),  44.7 KiB    
In cache libwx_baseu-suse-nostl10_0_0-3.2.4-3.3.x86_64.rpm                               (5/16), 767.7 KiB    
In cache libwx_gtk3u_core-suse-nostl10_0_0-3.2.4-3.3.x86_64.rpm                          (6/16),   2.2 MiB    
In cache libwx_baseu_xml-suse-nostl10_0_0-3.2.4-3.3.x86_64.rpm                           (7/16),  44.8 KiB    
In cache libwx_baseu_net-suse-nostl10_0_0-3.2.4-3.3.x86_64.rpm                           (8/16), 135.8 KiB    
In cache libwx_gtk3u_html-suse-nostl10_0_0-3.2.4-3.3.x86_64.rpm                          (9/16), 273.1 KiB    
In cache libwx_gtk3u_qa-suse-nostl10_0_0-3.2.4-3.3.x86_64.rpm                           (10/16),  69.4 KiB    
Retrieving: fluid-soundfont-gs-3.1-12.56.noarch (Multimedia Applications (openSUSE_Tumbleweed))
                                                                                        (11/16),   2.5 MiB    
Retrieving: fluid-soundfont-gs-3.1-12.56.noarch.rpm ...................................................[error]
Download (curl) error for 'https://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/noarch/fluid-soundfont-gs-3.1-12.56.noarch.rpm':
Error code: Curl error 56
Error message: The requested URL returned error: 404

Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/...? shows all options] (a): 

[Sauerland]

@zeesuse

https://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/noarch/fluid-soundfont-gs-3.1-12.56.noarch.rpm

There was an Update in the meantime.
Try
zypper ref

[zeesuse]

thanks it worked, now do i have to do zypper ref everytime before installing anything?

[hui]

If you setup additional repositories correctly, you don’t have to do zypper ref everytime. Check YaST → Software Repositories and set the repo in question to “auto refresh”.

[hcvv]

@zeesuse

do i have to do zypper ref everytime before installing anything?

Not realy. When you have your repos set to auto-refresh, this is done automatic by zypper at install (or update). But only when it wasn’t done for a certain span of time. It is defines in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf :

# repo.refresh.delay = 10

which is the default. But when a repo changes withing those 10 minutes …

[Sauerland]

You get such an error also if a package is updated after the cache of the Repo on you Installation was update.

It’s only a small chance, but i could be…