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I don’t have much of a clue of what I’m doing, but I wanted to update to the new version of OpenSuse. It seems to not be possible, however, due to ‘invalid’ repositories. They are apparently ‘orphaned’, and when I attempt to open them I get web-pages with errors.

I’ve added an image of the console showing information that may be useful... Sorry for it being in Dutch, I tried to set the language to English, but it seems to only change the UI texts.

The error message after ‘dist-upgrade’ reads ‘Because of the treatment of orphaned packages, the dist-upgrade depends on the correct setup of repositories [I think] more than any other command. It shouldn’t continue if the enabled repositories don’t want to refresh. This could seriously damage the system. If a non-refreshed repository isn’t really necessary, it should be disabled. See “man zypper” for more information on this command.’

... Hmm. How do I determine if a non-functioning repository (which I suppose the items in orange are) is ‘really necessary’?

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[-] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 2 points 1 week ago

That was my take on it at least. Manual way tends to sound to me the "if you really want to do this the hard way" option.

[-] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

It worked, so thank you!

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