Things are now all screwed up. I tried removing texlive in Yast2. It seemed to remove about half the thousand or so files. But Software manager says texlive is still installed. I set its box to be clear (which cleared most of the other texlive boxes) and hit accept, and Software Manager disappears. I tried this 4 times. Zypper remove texlive says it is not there. I tried rebuilding the rpm database, with no changes to the above results.