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Hi,

yesterday, the online update (more than 2000 files) failed (zypper was not able to finish the update, also not after some attempts, and finally I rebooted the computer and I was not able to get to the desktop or konsole anymore).
Therefore, I made a fresh installation of Tumbleweed which worked fine (interestingly, I had to increase my efi boot partition which worked fine in the past with 156MB).

Now, I’m confronted with some problems when installing additional software:

  • software.opensuse.org is reacting very slow or not at all
  • I can’t find the needed additional software which was not problem in the past (UGENE, Zotero). spotify-easyrpm was only found after finding a direct link using google to the software package in software.opensuse.org (but not when using the search function on software.opensuse.org). Only standard software (firefox, libreoffice) will be shown in a search (and it’s a long search before something will be shown).
  • the settings button (for changing distributions…) is only working once
  • in Firefox the most menus were in korean (?). When using Chrome the menus are shown in English or German as it should be.

What’s going wrong with software.opensuse.org???

Best,

Michael

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What’s going wrong with software.opensuse.org???

It’s a known problem, and it’s being worked on AFAIU.

A similar recent thread…
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/531621-packet-search-not-working?highlight=software.opensuse.org+search

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Thanks for the info!

Michael

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FYI -
After a failed zypper dup,
If you can reboot the machine and login without a Desktop, it’s possibly worth a try to run “zypper dup” to see if it will complete the upgrade and restore your machine completely.

TSU

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It would still work fine. You just had to ignore the warnings and use the expert partitioner to mount the EFI partition at “/boot/efi”.

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Thanks for your additional tips!

The software download on software.opensuse.org is still a mess.

You can circumvent these problems when searching and downloading the software packages from: https://build.opensuse.org/

Here, you can find the different repositories for the packages and also direct download links for the rpms.

Best,

Michael