I’m running Opensuse v10.3 on an Ibm Netfinity 4000r (couldn’t get the Live 11.1 to work).
I’m having a problem with the Software Manager application
1.) Regardless of what external repositories with packages that I define, it seems that I can never get them to show up in the window. I have a limited list of applications, however it never seems to change. It’s almost as if it’s cache the application from the install CD. I’ve done all of the obvious things, such as ran the update application which works, deleted the repository reference to the Cd, tried different repositories. I’m about to wit’s end on this issue, and as always I’m under a deadline.
I am aware that I can install the applications by manually downloading the rpm’s however I’m not sure of all the dependancies I will need. That’s the nice thing about the Software Manager is that it will also include any dependancies.
2.) It crashes
3.) It crashes
Any help would be much appreciated, it may be something small… I’m relatively new to Opensuse, so maybe I’m missing something obvious.
However, now… whenever I do any command with zypper
I get an error saying…
Restoring system sources...
Parsing metadata for 20090512-142824...
Parsing metadata for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1...
Parsing metadata for http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/...
Parsing metadata for http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.3/...
Parsing metadata for http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/...
Invalid object: Can't open /var/lib/zypp/cache/Source.KGDHsW/DATA/descr/packages
Unexpected exception.
Can't parse packages file: Can't open /var/lib/zypp/cache/Source.KGDHsW/DATA/descr/packages
Please file a bug report about this.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper#Troubleshooting for instructions.
However, the troubleshooting site doesn’t seem to provide info to help in resolving my problem and I am now stuck.
Well you sure confused us talking about v10.3 when what you have is SLES 10 SP1, and not even SP3.
I don’t run SLES but some other people around here do. But if did then the first thing I would go over to the SLES forums and look for stickies about the SLES repos. Also you would have got some standard repos when you registered, no?
For some reason the user ‘ahhlun’ started posting on my thread about a subsequent issue regarding a work-around that user ‘caf4926’ posted response to my original/inital problem. I’m not sure why he posted his questions on my thread, but it has only caused confusion. My issues that still remain are outlined in my original/starting thread. The user ‘ahhlunn’ has no connection or affliation with me, my company or orginal issue.
Not trying to be mean, but this is to USER ‘ahhlun’, please start a new thread if you have issues, as you have completely confused everyone, with your subsequent postings on my issue.
Now back to my ORIGINAL issue, I will try this zypper utility, however I would still like to know if anyone has seen the issues I have experienced with OPENSUSE 10.3 and Software Manager (please refer to original post).
Run the zypper utility as caf4926 says and we’ll go from there. It could be that the zypper caches are corrupted. There are commands to clear the cache and start again.
