Recent install of Leap 15.5 on two systems and both have the same issue updating xfce4 .
Details of the failure are:
the to be installed xfce4-settings-4.18.3-bp155.2.3.1.x86_64 requires ‘xfce4-settings-branding = 4.18.3’, but this requirement cannot be provided
What when you use (as root):
zypper up
Well, I was getting the same result as fenrir0wulf, but just now, 45 packages updated. Previously, one of my repositories was responding that the metadata had expired - this was about a week ago. No longer getting that on my system. Thanks.
Maybe a repository mirror was just being synced when you tried to update.
I understand that all is fine now?
Please - this command has different logic than zypper patch. You cannot directly compare them. Yes, it will silently skip package with missing dependencies, but it does not prove anything. It is simply papering over the real problem instead of solving it - the packages will not be updated.
Mine is still not working. The only difference on this screenshot is that I went and disabled the packman repo.
The packages that don’t want to update are still the same XFCE packages.
Of course not.
Trying to do the update in YaST brings up this warning:
Agreed - zypper patch is still showing the problem and the package updater still wants to perform a patch. So, no, everything is not fine now.
Been getting same message from “zypper patch” for 4 or 5 days now. Not fixed yet.
(base) tom@mydesktop:~> sudo zypper patch
[sudo] password for root:
Retrieving repository 'packman' metadata ........................................................[done]
Building repository 'packman' cache .............................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'sle-update' metadata .....................................................[done]
Building repository 'sle-update' cache ..........................................................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
Problem: the to be installed xfce4-settings-4.18.3-bp155.2.3.1.x86_64 requires 'xfce4-settings-branding = 4.18.3', but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: xfce4-settings-branding-upstream-4.18.3-bp155.2.3.1.noarch[repo-backports-update]
Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
deinstallation of xfce4-settings-4.18.2-bp155.1.6.x86_64
deinstallation of xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.8.3-bp155.1.9.x86_64
deinstallation of patterns-xfce-xfce_office-20230212-lp155.1.4.x86_64
deinstallation of xfce4-xkb-plugin-lang-0.8.3-bp155.1.9.noarch
deinstallation of patterns-xfce-xfce-20230212-lp155.1.4.x86_64
Solution 2: deinstallation of xfce4-settings-branding-openSUSE-4.18.0+git0.9a2f754-lp155.1.6.noarch
Solution 3: do not install patch:openSUSE-2023-175-1.noarch
Solution 4: break xfce4-settings-4.18.3-bp155.2.3.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/4/c/d/?] (c):
But I am not using xfce desktop but i do have it installed so I will cancel this until it gets repaired.
tom kosvic
I also gave up waiting and uninstalled xfce desktop. The thing is, I moved to Leap from Manjaro because of Leap’s reputation for stability. Disappointed to run into this issue within a week of installing this distro.
Exactly the same problem here. (This site UI is new for me, so sorry if there is a “This Issue Affects Me Too” button and I didn’t find it).
This is a way too jumpy decision. OpenSuSE is indeed a great distro, just let the fresh 15.5 get over its teething problems.
I’m not an XFCE user, though I have tried it.
If this happened to me, I would initially go with:
Solution 3: do not install patch:openSUSE-2023-175-1.noarch
If this continued after several updates, then I would go with:
Solution 2: deinstallation of xfce4-settings-branding-openSUSE-4.18.0+git0.9a2f754-lp155.1.6.noarch
I would expect that to affect the desktop appearance, but not the functionality.
Oh, and I would probably file a bug report (if one had not already been filed).
Did you try to read this topic before answering?