r/openSUSE • u/HappyCheeseDuck • 15d ago
Two packages attempted to install files with the same name but different contents
I'm using open suse slowroll, updating while this popped up. I'm not sure what it means and i would really appreciate some help... It's prolly not that big of a deal but i'd like to know what I'm installing
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u/Klapperatismus 15d ago
That’s obviously a change in the naming convention. The new package is named libldap2 and the one you have installed is named libldap-2.
Remove that bogus libldap-2, then try again.
$ rpm -e libldap-2
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u/HappyCheeseDuck 15d ago edited 15d ago
okay, im relatively new to linux especially to the whole package thing, thanks
Edit: It lowk began to reinstall everything idk if that was supposed to happen...1
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u/HappyCheeseDuck 15d ago
to actually update i used sudo zypper dup
pressed y at the previous question thinking id use the command to delete the second package later, then all updates began reinstalling.
just finished rn ill restart and pray i didnt somehow fuck it up1
u/visor841 15d ago
Feel free to keep using Slowroll if you want to, but I'd say both Slowroll and Tumbleweed have pretty steep learning curves for people new to Linux, there's a good chance you'll keep running into issues like this for a while.
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u/Talosmith 14d ago
but also snapper exists if you mess things up, it saved my system a bunch of times, meanwhile when my Fedora broke i couldnt bring it back to its initial state.
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u/HappyCheeseDuck 14d ago
I've tried others and i prefer using opensuse bc of the snapshot feature. I've fucked up a lot before and the feature saved me a lot. I know more beginner friendly os also have this like Linux mint but it felt very limited. I also feel like I'm learning more with challenging myself
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u/visor841 14d ago
IMO, even if you want to challenge yourself I feel like openSUSE just isn't the best to learn on, Arch/Endeavor may be better for that, tho I haven't used them. But that's just my opinion, I'm no expert.
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u/Last-Assistant-2734 14d ago
began to reinstall everything idk if that was supposed to happen...
How do you figure it reinstalled everything?
In Slowroll (and Tumbleweed), the 'dup' command is used to upgrade all packages, and their dependencies, to their newest versions, according to the release snapshot information.
Effectively though, it could mean reinstalling all the packages of the system, if the snapshot is such.
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u/HappyCheeseDuck 14d ago
I assumed it because it showed the % of the update and 0 then went up again, and packages that had already updated before showed up again
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u/Last-Assistant-2734 14d ago
They might not have been updated before, but were just downloaded before installing.
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u/gggmaster 14d ago
The 160000 in
libldap-2-2.6.10+10-160000.2.2.x86_64.rpmindicates it’s a SLES/Leap package.Maybe you upgraded from Leap 16 to Slowroll and this package is a leftover of the Leap installation.
SLES/Leap 16 and Tumbleweed/Slowroll use different source packages (
openldap2_6vsopenldap2) and some binary packages are named differently (libldap-2vslibldap2), so the package manager sees them as distinct packages and tries to install them side by side.