Packman repository permission denied

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#1

Hi,

I’ve been having this issue since this morning when trying to zypper dup (and Permission to access ‘http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/repodata/repomd.xml’ denied when trying refresh) and don’t see it mentioned elsewhere…**

Problem retrieving files from ‘packman’.
Permission to access ‘http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/repodata/repomd.xml’ denied.

**Is this an issue with me or them? Is that the right address? Putting it in a browser directly gets 403 Forbidden

Thanks
MorayJ

#2

There are several recent threads on this.

Short term answer – wait a few days and see if it corrects.

Long term answer – try using a different packman mirror.

#3

Thanks - my search didn’t turn them up.

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/550627-zypper-ref-error-Problem-retrieving-files-from-packman

#4

How do I use a different packman mirror? And unlike the OP, I’m using Leap 15.2

#5

See here…
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/550999-Pacman-permission-denied?p=3008998#post3008998

#6

The linked post tells me the packman mirror, that you’re recommending I switch to. But how do I actuality switch to it?

#7

You can use Yast Software Repositories, and just edit the url.

#8

Do as nrickert stated, or if you want to you can remove the existing repo with ‘zypper rr <alias_or_repo_number>’ and then add the new repo with

zypper ar -f http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ packman
#9

Thanks. But how do I know that I set up Packman correctly? It there some test I can use, perhaps a program that will fail unless Packman’s working properly? Mind you, I’m new to Linux.

#10

You could do

zypper ref -r packman

Adjust to suit the name you used for the repo.

#11

If you want to make sure of switching to packman packages where possible, do

zypper dup --from packman --allow-vendor-change

More info
https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories

#12

Being an openSUSE user since 1995 the hassle with packman servers is a minor annoyance for me, but for new users it is a big one. When I considered replacing Tumbleweed by Manjaro on my AMD Ryzen 5 3400G (it consistently fails to suspend/resume since 8 months while all other distributions work flawlessly) I ran into in a missing server problem, which was solved by copy/paste of a single line in their excellent documentation: https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Pacman-mirrors

pacman-mirrors --country Germany && pacman -Syyu

I think there is ample margin for openSUSE improvements.

Currently I use the following 2 repos:

**erlangen:~ #** zypper lr packman Packman 
Alias          : packman 
Name           : Packman repository (openSUSE_Tumbleweed) 
**URI            : http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed **
**Enabled        : No**
GPG Check      : ----
Priority       : 90 (raised priority)
Autorefresh    : On 
Keep Packages  : Off 
Type           : rpm-md 
GPG Key URI    : http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/repodata/repomd.xml.key 
Path Prefix    :  
Parent Service :  
Keywords       : --- 
Repo Info Path : /etc/zypp/repos.d/packman.repo 
MD Cache Path  : /var/cache/zypp/raw/packman 

Alias          : Packman 
Name           : Packman 
**URI            : http://ftp.fau.de/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ **
**Enabled        : Yes **
GPG Check      : (r ) Yes 
Priority       : 90 (raised priority)
Autorefresh    : On 
Keep Packages  : Off 
Type           : rpm-md 
GPG Key URI    :  
Path Prefix    :  
Parent Service :  
Keywords       : --- 
Repo Info Path : /etc/zypp/repos.d/Packman.repo 
MD Cache Path  : /var/cache/zypp/raw/Packman 
**erlangen:~ #**

Switching between these is done by enabling the working one and disabling the failing one.