I just installed OS 10.3 on a desktop, and there was a problem with zypper during installation. Now my updater isn’t working at all.
It has a pop up that reads the following:
“Can’t launch zypp-checkpatches-wrapper helper program. Make sure zypper package is installed and working.”
What would be the easiest way to fix this problem, just go through yast and reinstall zypper?
Also, is Smart package manager recommended over zypper? Cand smart be configured to auto install updates?
Hmm…that’s odd, yast doesn’t even show zypper being installed.
OK, Iinstalled zypper & now when I update I get this:
Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0,/dev/sr1 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: No medium found (mount: No medium found) Problem downloading the package file from the repository: Failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0,/dev/sr1 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: No medium found (mount: No medium found) Please, see the above error message to for a hint.
CD/DVD reader is old and failing, or is new and failing.
IMHO a re-install is best, with a good CD/DVD and/or with a CD/DVD reader that is not failing.
This tends to be subjective. I like bananas, someone else likes oranges.
I prefer smart in 10.3 because:
a. smart is faster than zypper in 10.3
b. smart can easily install off the hard drive in 10.3, while that is difficult for zypper in 10.3 (as for zypper the directory must first be made a repos),
c. smart can keep a copy on its hard drive of the installed rpm, and zypper can not,
d. smart has more display options (command line, shell, GUI) while zypper does not
I am not a believer in auto updates. My rather subjective and biased view is “auto update” are a windows perspective that has migrated over to Linux. My view is Linux users should be on top of what their updates are. Of course my view is also contrary to the view of what could be the majority, who want the masses to move to Linux (and where the masses don’t want to manually control their updates). … So I won’t debate a losing argument for me! Anyway, I simply don’t know if smart can be configured to do that, because I never tried.
Just a further note … zypper has been improved significantly in 11.0, where in 11.0:
a. zypper is faster than smart,
b. zypper uses less memory than smart
c. zypper (like smart) can install off of the hard drive easily,
d. smart still can save/keep rpms on the hard drive (after an install), and zypper can not.
Not sure about this but one new feature in zypper is also to keep packages within the cache ( the -k / -K options)? I will have a go at this to test seeing it’s not clear to me what is meant with it, but if true point d would also be resolved with the new version.
Magic31, you’re right : zypper can save rpm on hard drive on 11.0
However, smart can still do some things zypper can’t do for the moment : parallelizing downloads, which allow to download all stuffs in a one way, then install all rpms.
This features will be added in a couple of weeks/months, some discussion have already started about this on zypp-devel mailling list.
parallel downloading, having multiple download streams working at once so it can speed up the process and download continues while a package is also being installed.
I am a newbie to OpenSUSE, so please forgive my lack of knowledge… This is also my first post ever on this website…
Anyways, I was attempting to use zypper to install VLC when I got a similar error message:
failed to mount cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 on /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001: No medium found (mount: No medium found on /dev/sr1)
The problem was very simple to solve. Simply insert the OpenSUSE install DVD and try again. It worked for me!
Anyway, I simply don’t know if smart can be configured to do that, because I never tried.
