apparently made a huge mistake - removing certain packages from some calibre repo completely - system kind of uninstalled

Support, apparently I made a huge mistake or so, via the yast softwaremanagement, I went into that mode where I see the repositories on the left side each and every repo for itself. When clicking them, the yast listing the packages coming from that package. Some while ago, I added calibre ebook repo, from use user I think named ecsos or so, as that was the only repo I could kind of find via software.opensuse.org whose repo I could add to my 15.5 system that would then install me calibre. Anyhow, that repos brought in a set of other packages, I remember many python 3.11 or so packages being added as well. Today I wanted to simply delete or remove (red stop street road sign) in that yast software part. When trying to apply, the yast was doing dependency checks and it asked a few questions but not too many, oddly enough it asked e.g. I still remember if i wanted to keep or remove mozilla nss and so, which I have not messed with at all, dunno how this dependency came into play or how it was a chain of packages building on top of another and all being interconnected or something I suppose. Of course I kept all the packages that those questions asked by the yast software component. it even asked about openjdk or some weird stuff. I all kept those packages as I only remembered ticking off the python311 named packages in that ecsos repo with calibre. To the end before the yast software management started to run, it checked all those depending packages and eventually started off to work At the end, I kind of ended up with an empty KDE start menu and many of my pinned start symbols on the KDE tray or so (firefox, dolphin etc...) vanished or are now only a grey sheet symbol. Additionally the network (wifi) kind of turned itself off and vanishes, networkmanager or so seems gone, and even zypper ( i suppose /usr/bin/zypper ) doesnt come up any more. So quite a mess happened I didnt intend to I am so frustrated of myself and too liddle knowledge and experience. The affected system (15.5) is still up in KDE desktop, I can still fire up a konsole and e.g. midnightcommander and some stuff still works. To maybe make things worse? this system is full-disk-encrypted, just the normal way the 15.5 installer or was it the 15.4 installer back then offered with btrfs and snapshots. Could I simply reboot or turn off this system and maybe save my neck by reverting to a snapshot or something? I hope it did not kill the basic parts that I can boot somewhat into this fde grub menu and select an earlier snapshot there? i never tried this snapshot stuff before. This is kind of a hope, or any other hints on this matter? i can still attach an USB key to the machine although it doesnt automount it into the KDE session any more etc, but I guess i could make it work. maybe mount the 15.5 iso in some way and make the system repair somehow? i wouldnt know on how to fix the whole system step by step bringing in zypper or repos from the iso or whatnot? even wired ethernet seems to be off, no dhcp wise, although it still has a link and gets a linklocal ipv6 fe80: address or what that is called? but no ipv4 dhcp stuff and no global unicast ipv6 though. still zypper is gone or i dont find it? I compared a slowroll where zypper comes from there, but its not the same path on 15.5 or it is gone :( any good starters on this situation? thanks for any hints in helping me saving and repair this machine. ty.

On 2023-11-17 16:11, cagsm wrote:
Support,
apparently I made a huge mistake or so, via the yast softwaremanagement, I went into that mode where I see the repositories on the left side each and every repo for itself.
Next time, when you see that something important like "firefoxsomething" is getting removed, abort. ...
Could I simply reboot or turn off this system and maybe save my neck by reverting to a snapshot or something?
I hope it did not kill the basic parts that I can boot somewhat into this fde grub menu and select an earlier snapshot there? i never tried this snapshot stuff before. This is kind of a hope, or any other hints on this matter?
Absolutely, revert to the snapshot made just before your yast operation. You can check before rebooting what snapshots you have. Alternatively, look in the log what packages were removed and install them back. All of them, one by one. /var/log/zypp/history Another possibility is to boot from the installation full DVD or USB, then choose upgrade installed system. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 3:24 PM Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
Next time, when you see that something important like "firefoxsomething" is getting removed, abort.
well this is the problem i have really no idea why it went into a situation where it removed by firefox example etc. I only unticked those python311 prefixed/named packages on that one repo inside the yast software module.
Could I simply reboot or turn off this system and maybe save my neck by reverting to a snapshot or something?
I hope it did not kill the basic parts that I can boot somewhat into this fde grub menu and select an earlier snapshot there? i never tried this snapshot stuff before. This is kind of a hope, or any other hints on this matter?
Absolutely, revert to the snapshot made just before your yast operation. You can check before rebooting what snapshots you have.
so after the first password unlock of fde, then the grub2 menu showing up, I select some snapshot listed there or how would this work or where does this show up exactly? then the second password entry to actually boot would come along, right?
Alternatively, look in the log what packages were removed and install them back. All of them, one by one.
/var/log/zypp/history
Another possibility is to boot from the installation full DVD or USB, then choose upgrade installed system.
can the 15.5 iso image with its install module use and mount the apready present fde situation of the disk? i really hope so, i already thought about this. in the past, without using fde, i sometimes used to install onto/into the already present and existing opensuse system of the same version e.g. 15.3 iso booting and installing over 15.3 opensuse present on disk already. it would then kind of repair, replace or install certain packages and missing rpm and stuff and fix things for me. thanks for helping.

On vrijdag 17 november 2023 16:29:34 CET cagsm wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 3:24 PM Carlos E. R.
<robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
Next time, when you see that something important like "firefoxsomething" is getting removed, abort.
well this is the problem i have really no idea why it went into a situation where it removed by firefox example etc. I only unticked those python311 prefixed/named packages on that one repo inside the yast software module.
Could I simply reboot or turn off this system and maybe save my neck by reverting to a snapshot or something?
I hope it did not kill the basic parts that I can boot somewhat into this fde grub menu and select an earlier snapshot there? i never tried this snapshot stuff before. This is kind of a hope, or any other hints on this matter?
Absolutely, revert to the snapshot made just before your yast operation. You can check before rebooting what snapshots you have.
so after the first password unlock of fde, then the grub2 menu showing up, I select some snapshot listed there or how would this work or where does this show up exactly? then the second password entry to actually boot would come along, right?
Alternatively, look in the log what packages were removed and install them back. All of them, one by one.
/var/log/zypp/history
Another possibility is to boot from the installation full DVD or USB, then choose upgrade installed system.
can the 15.5 iso image with its install module use and mount the apready present fde situation of the disk? i really hope so, i already thought about this. in the past, without using fde, i sometimes used to install onto/into the already present and existing opensuse system of the same version e.g. 15.3 iso booting and installing over 15.3 opensuse present on disk already. it would then kind of repair, replace or install certain packages and missing rpm and stuff and fix things for me.
thanks for helping. In a terminal window do: sudo snapper list This gives a list of snapshots, with index number Now pick the snapshot from before your action, and do snapper rollback `that index`
-- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

On 2023-11-17 15:46, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
On vrijdag 17 november 2023 16:29:34 CET cagsm wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 3:24 PM Carlos E. R.
<robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
Next time, when you see that something important like "firefoxsomething" is getting removed, abort.
well this is the problem i have really no idea why it went into a situation where it removed by firefox example etc. I only unticked those python311 prefixed/named packages on that one repo inside the yast software module.
Could I simply reboot or turn off this system and maybe save my neck by reverting to a snapshot or something?
I hope it did not kill the basic parts that I can boot somewhat into this fde grub menu and select an earlier snapshot there? i never tried this snapshot stuff before. This is kind of a hope, or any other hints on this matter?
Absolutely, revert to the snapshot made just before your yast operation. You can check before rebooting what snapshots you have.
so after the first password unlock of fde, then the grub2 menu showing up, I select some snapshot listed there or how would this work or where does this show up exactly? then the second password entry to actually boot would come along, right?
Alternatively, look in the log what packages were removed and install them back. All of them, one by one.
/var/log/zypp/history
Another possibility is to boot from the installation full DVD or USB, then choose upgrade installed system.
can the 15.5 iso image with its install module use and mount the apready present fde situation of the disk? i really hope so, i already thought about this. in the past, without using fde, i sometimes used to install onto/into the already present and existing opensuse system of the same version e.g. 15.3 iso booting and installing over 15.3 opensuse present on disk already. it would then kind of repair, replace or install certain packages and missing rpm and stuff and fix things for me.
thanks for helping. In a terminal window do:
Text mode console, or inside KDE?
sudo snapper list This gives a list of snapshots, with index number Now pick the snapshot from before your action, and do snapper rollback `that index`
There is also a YaST module. Documentation, there is a lot: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Snapper https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/ch... 3 System recovery and snapshot management with Snapper # Abstract# Snapper allows creating and managing file system snapshots. File system snapshots allow keeping a copy of the state of a file system at a certain point of time. The standard setup of Snapper is designed to allow rolling back system changes. However, you can also use it to create on-disk backups of user data. As the basis for this functionality, Snapper uses the Btrfs file system or thinly-provisioned LVM volumes with an XFS or Ext4 file system. 3.1 Default setup 3.2 Using Snapper to undo changes 3.3 System rollback by booting from snapshots 3.4 Enabling Snapper in user home directories 3.5 Creating and modifying Snapper configurations 3.6 Manually creating and managing snapshots 3.7 Automatic snapshot clean-up 3.8 Showing exclusive disk space used by snapshots 3.9 Frequently asked questions -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 3:47 PM Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
sudo snapper list This gives a list of snapshots, with index number Now pick the snapshot from before your action, and do snapper rollback `that index`
yes I understand, I have snapshots listed, so just to get this right, then the stuff I am remembering that grub2? also shows something about snapshots during boot, is something else? or maybe only on kernel level stuff or so? so still from inside the running, messed up 15.5 i rollback to that index I see listed, and immediately? comes into existence as a reverted situation, the icons, files, packages and all coming back instantly (kind of) or do I need to reboot aft that then or how does this work on a technical level? i am still often amazed that linux kind of can delete its own stuff while still running, so maybe it can revert, overwrite and reapply all this again while it is still running? thanks.

On vrijdag 17 november 2023 17:00:56 CET cagsm wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 3:47 PM Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
sudo snapper list This gives a list of snapshots, with index number Now pick the snapshot from before your action, and do snapper rollback `that index`
yes I understand, I have snapshots listed, so just to get this right, then the stuff I am remembering that grub2? also shows something about snapshots during boot, is something else? or maybe only on kernel level stuff or so?
so still from inside the running, messed up 15.5 i rollback to that index I see listed, and immediately? comes into existence as a reverted situation, the icons, files, packages and all coming back instantly (kind of) or do I need to reboot aft that then or how does this work on a technical level?
i am still often amazed that linux kind of can delete its own stuff while still running, so maybe it can revert, overwrite and reapply all this again while it is still running? thanks. You have to reboot to actually be in the rolled-back snapshot.
-- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 4:04 PM Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
You have to reboot to actually be in the rolled-back snapshot.
i have successfully applied some earlier snapshot that made sense timestamp wise. the earlier is even from yesterday. unfortunately, the KDE start menu and most of the icons on the lower bar, are still vanished or greyish sheet. I had putty installed and that was for example pinned (favorited?) there. when i hover the mouse i kind identify its place but the putty icon is not there, also same for mozilla firefox. inside the konsole, i can start up firefox from command line. very odd. who or why have the elements of the kde menu been disabled or removed? i had thought such stuff was being stored inside a users /home/user/ directory ~ a mere removal of packages? also removes config files or where are these stored? how would I now know what else has been vanishing? do the snapshots not take place for users files e.g. in /home/ .... ? still thanks lot already, i now need to figure out how to restore the normal kde menu functionality or revert it back to default install time or vanilla time or something? or would i now go to booting the 15.5 iso and install it over/into this 15.5 still messed up a little bit? ty.

* cagsm <cumandgets0mem00f@gmail.com> [11-17-23 10:18]:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 4:04 PM Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
You have to reboot to actually be in the rolled-back snapshot.
i have successfully applied some earlier snapshot that made sense timestamp wise. the earlier is even from yesterday. unfortunately, the KDE start menu and most of the icons on the lower bar, are still vanished or greyish sheet. I had putty installed and that was for example pinned (favorited?) there. when i hover the mouse i kind identify its place but the putty icon is not there, also same for mozilla firefox.
inside the konsole, i can start up firefox from command line. very odd. who or why have the elements of the kde menu been disabled or removed? i had thought such stuff was being stored inside a users /home/user/ directory ~
a mere removal of packages? also removes config files or where are these stored? how would I now know what else has been vanishing? do the snapshots not take place for users files e.g. in /home/ .... ?
still thanks lot already, i now need to figure out how to restore the normal kde menu functionality or revert it back to default install time or vanilla time or something?
or would i now go to booting the 15.5 iso and install it over/into this 15.5 still messed up a little bit? ty.
you apparently did not use a snapshot dated prior to your install of calibre, where you caused your concerns or where your subsequent actions caused your concerns. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 4:43 PM Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
* cagsm <cumandgets0mem00f@gmail.com> [11-17-23 10:18]: you apparently did not use a snapshot dated prior to your install of calibre, where you caused your concerns or where your subsequent actions caused your concerns.
i dont understand. the only snapshot before that one i reverted back to, was back then from yesterday, and now the only snapshot being left is one from over ten days ago. yesterday and today only maybe three hours ago the kde was not affected at all etc. how can it be that reverting to a snapshot ten days ago. I just reverted back to ten days ago and the kde menu is still empty. there are some flaws in this system. this doesnt add up :((

* cagsm <cumandgets0mem00f@gmail.com> [11-17-23 10:55]:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 4:43 PM Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
* cagsm <cumandgets0mem00f@gmail.com> [11-17-23 10:18]: you apparently did not use a snapshot dated prior to your install of calibre, where you caused your concerns or where your subsequent actions caused your concerns.
i dont understand. the only snapshot before that one i reverted back to, was back then from yesterday, and now the only snapshot being left is one from over ten days ago. yesterday and today only maybe three hours ago the kde was not affected at all etc. how can it be that reverting to a snapshot ten days ago.
I just reverted back to ten days ago and the kde menu is still empty. there are some flaws in this system. this doesnt add up :((
is your home directory on btrfs? if not, you will need to restore it from backup, or not. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 5:02 PM Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
is your home directory on btrfs? if not, you will need to restore it from backup, or not.
yes everything is on one nvme disk and opensuse handled its partitioning. all default. kde desktop installation choice at the very beginning. kde menu seems to be not functioning, dunno why. how would i reinstall the kde? plasma? stuff to make it add default stuff. the system settings, the plasmadiscover the dolphin icons were not there at the bottom of the kde bar or screen. the whole kde start menu is empty. i have for example also a element-desktop from the opensuse download servers in the path devel languages nodejs 15.5 thats how I understand where this element-desktop (and element-web, and nodejs-electron package it is based on or compiiled to) comes from as well, and for example I can start the element-desktop manually from konsole, and even pin it to the disfunct apps area on the bottom of the screen, but when qutting element-desktop the element-desktop object pinned to that place, then turns out to be the wrapper or lower stack nodejs-electron itself, coming up emtpy and not loading the element-desktop/element-web objects or parts when simply clicking that pinned stuff. starting manually element-desktop works though. so there seem to be some config files? or config places folders etc missing for kde or plasma desktop to work properly?

After a few more reboots and zypper ref zypper up, apparently something? has repaired the kde taskmanager, my former pins show up there, and also the kde menu shows all the default or normal kde applications settings content and whatnot in there and also the favorites are now populated there again. i still need to learn the wording of these linux desktop things. what is the "start menu" actually being called exactly, where i click on the geeko icon in the lower left corner of the kde screen, and its extending then upwards a list of groups and applications and the sleep restart shutdown logoff buttons etc. thank you lots for helping in this thready everybody.

On 2023-11-17 18:12, cagsm wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 5:02 PM Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
is your home directory on btrfs? if not, you will need to restore it from backup, or not.
yes everything is on one nvme disk and opensuse handled its partitioning. all default.
Same disk yes, same partition no. Snapshots only apply to the single btrfs partition, not to /home which typically is on another partition. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

On vrijdag 17 november 2023 17:59:51 CET Carlos E. R. wrote:
Snapshots only apply to the single btrfs partition, not to /home which typically is on another partition. No. The default is a single btrfs partition where /home is a subvolume.
-- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

On 2023-11-17 19:09, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
On vrijdag 17 november 2023 17:59:51 CET Carlos E. R. wrote:
Snapshots only apply to the single btrfs partition, not to /home which typically is on another partition. No. The default is a single btrfs partition where /home is a subvolume.
Mmm? When did that change? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [11-17-23 13:18]:
On 2023-11-17 19:09, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
On vrijdag 17 november 2023 17:59:51 CET Carlos E. R. wrote:
Snapshots only apply to the single btrfs partition, not to /home which typically is on another partition. No. The default is a single btrfs partition where /home is a subvolume.
Mmm? When did that change?
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))
qite some time ago. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc

On 2023-11-17 17:00, cagsm wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 3:47 PM Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
sudo snapper list This gives a list of snapshots, with index number Now pick the snapshot from before your action, and do snapper rollback `that index`
yes I understand, I have snapshots listed, so just to get this right, then the stuff I am remembering that grub2? also shows something about snapshots during boot, is something else? or maybe only on kernel level stuff or so?
so still from inside the running, messed up 15.5 i rollback to that index I see listed, and immediately? comes into existence as a reverted situation, the icons, files, packages and all coming back instantly (kind of) or do I need to reboot aft that then or how does this work on a technical level?
You can also use "yast2 snapper". I posted links with documentation about everything you want to know. Start with the book, I would say. You can even print and bind it. After the command, you have to reboot to actually do it.
i am still often amazed that linux kind of can delete its own stuff while still running, so maybe it can revert, overwrite and reapply all this again while it is still running?
You are the master and commander. It just obeyed your orders.
thanks.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

On 2023-11-17 16:29, cagsm wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 3:24 PM Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
Next time, when you see that something important like "firefoxsomething" is getting removed, abort.
well this is the problem i have really no idea why it went into a situation where it removed by firefox example etc. I only unticked those python311 prefixed/named packages on that one repo inside the yast software module.
It doesn't matter "why". It will tell you in advance everything it will remove, you just have to have a look at it. The instant you see "firefoxsomething" or "yastsomething", just abort, do not continue. You have lots of time, even years, before clicking "ok, do your job". -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))

* cagsm <cumandgets0mem00f@gmail.com> [11-17-23 09:12]:
Support,
apparently I made a huge mistake or so, via the yast softwaremanagement, I went into that mode where I see the repositories on the left side each and every repo for itself.
When clicking them, the yast listing the packages coming from that package.
Some while ago, I added calibre ebook repo, from use user I think named ecsos or so, as that was the only repo I could kind of find via software.opensuse.org whose repo I could add to my 15.5 system that would then install me calibre.
Anyhow, that repos brought in a set of other packages, I remember many python 3.11 or so packages being added as well.
Today I wanted to simply delete or remove (red stop street road sign) in that yast software part.
When trying to apply, the yast was doing dependency checks and it asked a few questions but not too many, oddly enough it asked e.g. I still remember if i wanted to keep or remove mozilla nss and so, which I have not messed with at all, dunno how this dependency came into play or how it was a chain of packages building on top of another and all being interconnected or something I suppose.
Of course I kept all the packages that those questions asked by the yast software component. it even asked about openjdk or some weird stuff. I all kept those packages as I only remembered ticking off the python311 named packages in that ecsos repo with calibre.
To the end before the yast software management started to run, it checked all those depending packages and eventually started off to work
At the end, I kind of ended up with an empty KDE start menu and many of my pinned start symbols on the KDE tray or so (firefox, dolphin etc...) vanished or are now only a grey sheet symbol.
Additionally the network (wifi) kind of turned itself off and vanishes, networkmanager or so seems gone, and even zypper ( i suppose /usr/bin/zypper ) doesnt come up any more.
So quite a mess happened I didnt intend to I am so frustrated of myself and too liddle knowledge and experience.
The affected system (15.5) is still up in KDE desktop, I can still fire up a konsole and e.g. midnightcommander and some stuff still works.
To maybe make things worse? this system is full-disk-encrypted, just the normal way the 15.5 installer or was it the 15.4 installer back then offered with btrfs and snapshots.
Could I simply reboot or turn off this system and maybe save my neck by reverting to a snapshot or something?
I hope it did not kill the basic parts that I can boot somewhat into this fde grub menu and select an earlier snapshot there? i never tried this snapshot stuff before. This is kind of a hope, or any other hints on this matter?
i can still attach an USB key to the machine although it doesnt automount it into the KDE session any more etc, but I guess i could make it work.
maybe mount the 15.5 iso in some way and make the system repair somehow? i wouldnt know on how to fix the whole system step by step bringing in zypper or repos from the iso or whatnot?
even wired ethernet seems to be off, no dhcp wise, although it still has a link and gets a linklocal ipv6 fe80: address or what that is called? but no ipv4 dhcp stuff and no global unicast ipv6 though. still zypper is gone or i dont find it? I compared a slowroll where zypper comes from there, but its not the same path on 15.5 or it is gone :(
any good starters on this situation? thanks for any hints in helping me saving and repair this machine. ty.
select the snapshop prior to installing calibre. if it restores your system, make it permanent. if you cannot resolve issues related to non-standard repos, you probably should do without them. hint calibre/ecsos. or try to run it in a flatpack or whatever it is called. at least you probably will not bork your system. https://flathub.org/apps/com.calibre_ebook.calibre -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 3:30 PM Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
select the snapshop prior to installing calibre. if it restores your system, make it permanent.
still running 15.5 system, sudo snapper list returns many snapshot states, this works fine, do these many snapshot entries show up during boot time as well to select from? the delta used disk space seems very tiny though to make such huge changes? to my system to like remove the firefox alone etc? only less than 2.0 MiB are being shown on the last two snapshot entries that would match the timestamp when I borked the system? very odd. then there are more snapshots from today, zypp(zypper) which amount to 11 more snapshots, but also they are only like some hundred kilobytes each of them only. will see where I arrive.
if you cannot resolve issues related to non-standard repos, you probably should do without them. hint calibre/ecsos. or try to run it in a flatpack or whatever it is called. at least you probably will not bork your system. https://flathub.org/apps/com.calibre_ebook.calibre
apparently I need to learn much more to handle repos and packages coming from them, but then again thats why i used the yast softwaremanagement module and not messing with rpm or so manually. anyhow thanks.

On 2023-11-17 16:38, cagsm wrote:
apparently I need to learn much more to handle repos and packages coming from them, but then again thats why i used the yast softwaremanagement module and not messing with rpm or so manually.
Snapshots have zero size the moment they are done. They are not photos of what was there. Just look for the one that YaST made before the operation. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))
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