By de-selecting the problem patch , helm-fish-completion-3.8.0-bp153.2.3.4.noarch , I was able to install other patches. Just this patch remains to be applied. But fails due to the dependency. mharvey@p5510:~> sudo zypper lp Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Repository | Name | Category | Severity | Interactive | Status | Since | Summary -------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+----------+-----------+-------------+--------+-------+------------------------- Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 | openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-3666 | security | important | --- | needed | - | Security update for helm Found 1 applicable patch: 1 patch needed (1 security patch)