Repository issues with 1-click type installs

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I’ve encountered an issue several times over the years. Currently it involves installing Audacity 3.3.3, and I’ve experienced it currently with both multimedia:apps and home:Sauerland:mixx repositories. When I attempt install it list the repositories to be added. I’ve tried running as-is, as well as using the Customize option to not remain subscribed. The outcome is the same with both. Any of the repositories ending with “GA” fail. As mentioned, I’ve experienced this several times with totally different apps. Retry doesn’t help, and if choose to not retry the install moves on with that repository showing a checkmark. The installation eventually ends with the message that the installation has failed. An example of the failure message when adding the repository is as follows:

An error occurred while initializing the software repository.
Details:
https-download.opensuse.org-9db86b03: [https-download.opensuse.org-9db86b03|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP4:/GA/pool/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - [https-download.opensuse.org-9db86b03|https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP4:/GA/pool/] Repository type can't be determined.

Try again?

The ending page shows
Failure stage was: Adding Repositories
and

* https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP1:/GA/pool/
* https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP2:/GA/pool/
* https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP3:/GA/pool/
* https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP4:/GA/pool/
* https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-15-SP5:/GA/toberemoved/

However, when I check my repositories in YaST they are all there with priority 99, along with the others that were successful during the installation. The one thing that I’ve considered is that my existing (permanent) repositories are all lower priority number than 99, i.e. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, and 8. Not sure if that is the problem though.

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Don’t use 1-click installations as they screw your repo list and lead to problems you encounter. You can search the forum for similar problems. This was already discussed several times and should be broadly known.

The 1-click installation adds non-existing repos. So always use expert installation and add only the respective needed repository.

Btw, audacity 3.3.3 is in the openSUSE standard OSS repo and don’t need additional 3rd party home repos…

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Here on Leap 15.5 not:

LANG=C zypper se -s audacity
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name          | Type       | Version           | Arch   | Repository
---+---------------+------------+-------------------+--------+----------------
i+ | audacity      | package    | 3.3.3-lp155.229.1 | x86_64 | Sauerland-OSS
v  | audacity      | package    | 2.2.2-bp155.3.13  | x86_64 | Main Repository
   | audacity      | srcpackage | 3.3.3-lp155.229.1 | noarch | Sauerland-OSS
i+ | audacity-lang | package    | 3.3.3-lp155.229.1 | noarch | Sauerland-OSS
v  | audacity-lang | package    | 2.2.2-bp155.3.13  | noarch | Main Repository
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Thanks to both of you for the quick replies. I got it installed without too much difficulty once I followed hui’s suggestion on avoiding the 1-click method. Ended up with 2.2.2 first via zypper, but then selected the 3.3.3 version within YaST which replaced it. So all good now.

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But did you clean up your repo list from the mess created by the 1-click?

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Yes, definitely did that. Current repository list is as follows:

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That is fine then.

Well, that list in fact does not t tell much because it does not show the URLs (when you need to do that in the future then please do zypper lr -d). But from what can bee seen it might be alright.

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This is my normal repository list, with the exception of the recent one added for Audacity:

# | Alias                                 | Name                                                         | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                    | Service
--+---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | Firefox_Repository                    | Firefox Repository                                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |    1     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/ | 
2 | ftp.gwdg.de-openSUSE_Leap_$releasever | Packman Repository                                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |    2     | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/     | 
3 | home_Sauerland_mixx                   | Audacity and mixxxx (15.5)                                   | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |    9     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Sauerland:/mixx/15.5/ | 
4 | repo-backports-update_1               | Update repository of openSUSE Backports                      | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |    5     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.5/backports/               | 
5 | repo-non-oss_1                        | Non-OSS Repository                                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      |    8     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.5/repo/non-oss/      | 
6 | repo-oss_1                            | Main Repository                                              | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      |    7     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.5/repo/oss/          | 
7 | repo-sle-update_1                     | Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |    6     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.5/sle/                     | 
8 | repo-update-non-oss_1                 | Update Repository (Non-Oss)                                  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |    4     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.5/non-oss/                 | 
9 | repo-update_1                         | Main Update Repository                                       | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |    3     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.5/oss                      |
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Again, looks fine to me. In any case I do not see any leftovers from 1-click installations.