Bug 301949

Summary:	Unclear error message from zypper
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere>
Component:	libzypp	Assignee:	Jan Kupec <jkupec>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	dmacvicar, schubi
Version:	Beta 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Hubert Figuiere 2007-08-20 19:52:56 UTC

I'm trying to install an available package, it fails:


$ sudo zypper sh
zypper> se emacs
S | Repository      | Type    | Name                 | Version            | Arch  
--+-----------------+---------+----------------------+--------------------+-------
[...]
v | 20070808-123056 | package | emacs                | 22.1-25            | i586  
i | 20070808-123056 | package | emacs                | 22.1-25            | x86_64
v |                 | package | emacs                | 22.1-23            | x86_64
v | 20070808-123056 | package | emacs                | 22.1-25            | i586  
i | 20070808-123056 | package | emacs                | 22.1-25            | x86_64
v | 20070808-123056 | package | emacs                | 22.1-25            | i586  
i | 20070808-123056 | package | emacs                | 22.1-25            | x86_64
v | 20070808-123056 | package | emacs                | 22.1-25            | i586  
i | 20070808-123056 | package | emacs                | 22.1-25            | x86_64
[...]
zypper> in emacs-x11
* Reading repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory-debug/inst-source-debug/' cache
* Reading repository 'packman' cache
* Reading repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/' cache
* Reading repository 'openSUSE-10.3-Updates' cache
* Reading repository 'Hub's stuff' cache
Reading RPM database...
Specified capability not found
zypper> 



libzypp-3.14.0-6
zypper-0.8.10-4

Comment 1 Klaus Kämpf 2007-08-21 09:12:56 UTC

You're trying to install 'emacs-x11' which is not available.

OTOH, the error message from zypper could be improved.
Adapting summary, reassigning.

Comment 2 Jan Kupec 2007-09-03 13:39:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 299486 ***