Whenever I try to search for or download software using Apper or Zypper, I get the following error:
Empty destination in URI: hd:///?device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-20001020000060804-part2
Any help?
That’s the USB (or other device) that you used to install.
Either plug it in, or disable it.
To disable, use Yast –> Software Repositories
Select the line containing the url that you show above. Uncheck the “enabled” box. Save the results, and you are done.
That is the device you installed fom. You do not need it anymore. Go to YaST > Software > Repository Management, select that repo and uncheck the Enable box below. Finish.
Thank you, total OpenSUSE noob here.
Some perspective. A couple of months ago, I installed Mageia 5 (just for testing). A while later, it wanted to do some update. Then it asked me to insert a particular CD. I didn’t have any CD. So I went to the update manager, and looked at the install sources. And there were two CDs listed there. I disabled both, and then the updates went through.
So other distros have similar issues. The experience with this on opensuse helped me look in the right place to fix it.
But a little bit less a noob now. 
That is why the forums exist, to help and teach.
On 2015-08-31 20:16, nrickert wrote:
> So other distros have similar issues. The experience with this on
> opensuse helped me look in the right place to fix it.
I wonder if we could write some feature request to have this “repo”
flagged as optional, and have zyyper tools handle it. Then we could vote
for it, with the help from some stats as one of the most asked questions 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Well, obviously yes it is possible to make a feature request.
I would probably vote for that. I tend to leave the install repo (USB) active for a few days after installation, then disable it. If I later want to install something that is probably on the DVD, I might enable, install, disable. But it would be convenient to have it auto-enabled only when plugged in.
I am not sure about the details, but if I remember correctly, the install device is disabled after installation in certain cases (or it was in earlier times in certain cases). I am pretty sure that when doing a DVD (earlier CD) installation (not from a live CD/DVD) it was disabled. So it can be done (of course), but there mighjt be reasons for not doing it in certain cases of installation.
A case where I can understand it won’t, would be an on-line upgrade (by switching repos). And because many of us know and post the solution to this problem without asking further questions, we mostly do not know how the several OPs installed.
It would appear that on Aug 31, Carlos E. R. did say:
> On 2015-08-31 20:16, nrickert wrote:
>
> > So other distros have similar issues. The experience with this on
> > opensuse helped me look in the right place to fix it.
>
> I wonder if we could write some feature request to have this “repo”
> flagged as optional, and have zyyper tools handle it. Then we could vote
> for it, with the help from some stats as one of the most asked questions
I’m thinking it really needs to be set up for the newbie who’s trying Linux
on a stand alone, or dial-up only machine.
But when the repo is “installed” it shouldn’t be enabled by default anymore.
Instead, if both zypper and yast could, when they don’t detect a broadband
connection to the online repos. Simply provide a helpful one liner CLI,
to enable the ‘on disk’ repo.
And likewise, if the ‘on disk’ repo is enabled, but not found, then the
error message could include a one line command, to disable it.
Just a thought.
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JtWdyP