Dear all, I used to run a script sudo zypper ref sudo zypper lu echo "ready" sudo zypper up to install updates; recently, that led to "permission denied" errors (see below) that could only be avoided by becomin root and then calling zypper. What is the reason? And isn't it generally recommended to use sudo instead of su? Thanks for your input. regards Geza The errors looked like: Retrieving repository 'openSUSE Current OSS' metadata [\] Permission to access ' http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-current/repo/oss/media.1/...' denied. Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): a Retrieving repository 'openSUSE Current OSS' metadata [error] Repository 'openSUSE Current OSS' is invalid. [|] Valid metadata not found at specified URL(s) Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Skipping repository 'openSUSE Current OSS' because of the above error. I removed the repositories and added them again, deleted the cache, did zypper clean etc, the error persisted (for all repositories); only when followin a suggestion in an old forum thread I became root and started zypper then, everything works fine again. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org