I think this got buried in the other thread...
Well the supported way to update a system is `zypper dup` we will make> sure that works there should rarely be a need for an openSUSE user to
call rpm directly, especially when installing / removing / upgrading packages.
---- Um, where are the .repo files I need to add to zypper for it to read the current dist? I've been using the repo/repodata/repomd.xml files for my own local cache and building a repository with that locally, but without downloading that first, zypper seems unhappy: Error building the cache: [TW-OSS|http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss] Valid metadata not found at specified URL Warning: Skipping repository 'TW-OSS' because of the above error. Tried repo/repodata (included --check in the zypper command and it *claimed* it was successfully added: sudo zypper ar --check http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss TW-OSS Adding repository 'TW-OSS' ...............................................[done] Repository 'TW-OSS' successfully added Enabled : Yes Autorefresh : No GPG check : Yes URI : http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss