http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905558 Bug ID: 905558 Summary: "zypper -ve" throws strange dependency errors for some applications (firefox, thunderbird...) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: 13.2 Hardware: x86-64 OS: openSUSE 13.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp Assignee: zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: madworm_de.novell@spitzenpfeil.org QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 Build Identifier: The only way to get rid of this error is to completely remove the offending applications. Nothing else works. --- linux-m086:/home # zypper ve Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Problem: nothing provides appdata(firefox.appdata.xml) needed by application:Firefox-.noarch Solution 1: deinstallation of application:Firefox-.noarch Solution 2: break application:Firefox-.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c): --- Pressing (1) doesn't do anything. In this case it only goes away after removing all the MozillaFirefox rpms. Reproducible: Always -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.