UPDATE , NVIDIA, LICENSE AGREEMENT, LANGUAGE MIX, AGREEMENT INVALID IN NORWAY

I tried to update, but was unable to find a way as to sign the Nvidia Agreement. Below a (an incomplete!) record from the struggle:

It started with the usual message about available updates. The simple ‘click to execute’ did not work, as agreeing to the license
was not possible. Not being an expert, I tried YAST, that did not work either. Finally I resorted to the SuSE forums and found that
zypper would be the right way to go.

Upgrade via zypper started nicely, the I got

                    **"Vil du fortsette? [y/n/v/...? zeigt alle Optionen] (y)"**

Default and ‘y’ workd nicely albeit the message was tri-language

An then comes agreeing to the terms of the license agreement. Agreeing is single language then (plain Norwegian)

**Godkjenner du betingelsene i lisensavtalen? [ja/nei] (nei): **nei
‘nei’ (i.e. ‘no’) works, ‘ja’ (same in German and Norw.), ‘j’, ‘y’, ‘yes’ don’t

Another attempt yields text in German and Norwegian

Die folgenden 129 Paketaktualisierungen werden NICHT installiert:
alsa alsa-oss alsa-plugins alsa-plugins-pulse alsa-utils dvd+rw-tools gstreamer gstreamer-lang gstreamer-plugins-base
gstreamer-plugins-base-lang …

Die folgenden 8 Pakete werden aktualisiert:
ImageMagick ImageMagick-config-7-SUSE libMagickCore-7_Q16HDRI6 libMagickWand-7_Q16HDRI6 nvidia-computeG04 nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default
nvidia-glG04 x11-video-nvidiaG04

8 pakker som skal oppgraderes.
Gesamtgröße des Downloads: 80,2 MiB. Bereits im Cache gespeichert: 0 B. Etter handlingen vil ytterligere 2,9 MiB bli tatt i bruk

And I got the standard question about agreeing a
**Godkjenner du betingelsene i lisensavtalen? [ja/nei] (nei): **q # my reply is simply the letter ‘q’

Ugyldig svar ‘q’. Angi ‘y’ for ‘ja’ eller ‘n’ for ‘nei’ hvis ingenting annet fungerer.

ja # my respons, crashing out

Then new attempt with success

**Godkjenner du betingelsene i lisensavtalen? [ja/nei] (nei): **q
: Ugyldig svar ‘q’. Angi ‘y’ for ‘ja’ eller ‘n’ for ‘nei’ hvis ingenting annet fungerer.
**[ja/nei] (nei): **y

This works !!!

I did not try ‘zypper up –auto-agree-with-licenses’ early in the process as I found the
exercise very interesting. However, agreeing with the license is supposedly no problem
if you are located in Europe, as a venue in the USA (Oklahoma or where-ever) is invalid
and other terms as well.

So much for a time-consuming exercise and for the benefit of the openSuSE community.

Best regards,
Jan Christian

You’ll have to note whoever created the package, if it’s nVidia you should bring to their attention (most likely)
or if the package is somehow from openSUSE submit an issue to our bugzilla.

You can verify by inspecting the metadata about the package… particularly where the package is from (an nVidia address?)

zypper info *packagename *

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