Not able to install rpm

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Hi, I am quite new to openSUSE. I tried installing flash player by downloading rpm from adobe web site. When I double click on the flash player rpm, it stops by giving an error

“[PK_TMP_DIR|dir:///var/tmp/TmpDir.zCQnV0] Repository already exists.”

Please anyone help me to fix this problem.

Thank You

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Open a terminal and become su -
Do the following

zypper in flash-player
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Hi,

Welcome to the forums. While the advice above is technicaly correct, you might want to know more about why your way of installing was not the best one.

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Hi, Thank you for the post. But the same problem persists for all the RPMs. So is there any permanent solution for my problem.
Can I delete PK_TMP_DIR? If so how?

Please help me

Thank you

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Please post result of

zypper lr -d
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Try to clean your tmp dir in var, maybe that will sort it out for you.

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pramodbhat wrote:

> Can I delete PK_TMP_DIR? If so how?

‘Clear Temp Files at Boot - openSUSE Forums’
(http://tinyurl.com/yzmzp5b)

–
palladium

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Hi, this is the result of zypper ld -r in my terminal

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

–±-------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±---------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | PK_TMP_DIR | PK_TMP_DIR | Yes | Yes | 99 | plaindir | dir:///var/tmp/TmpDir.vQRCjU |
2 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
3 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |
4 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
5 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
6 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.2

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Open a terminal and become su and do

zypper rr 1

then

zypper in flash-player

then

zypper up
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Hi All, Thanks a lot for the replies. Bit relieved now.

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We’ll take that to mean - success!