Yast is the package management tool in open SuSE and its back-end is zypper. One of frequent issue that I have faced with zypper is that it installs a RPM package as soon as it downloads. It does not download the dependent RPMs before installing a RPM package. Sometime this leads to broken installs if there is some network problem while downloading the dependent RPMs. The problem becomes even worse if there is some network problem while the system update is going on. Once I had a broken update for KDE and I was not able to log into the GUI.
The behavior of zypper can be changed by config file. But I do not understand why the Open SuSE comes with behavior by default. The other popular Linux destro Ubuntu does not have this problem.
Anyway, I here is the solution to the probelm:-The behavior of zypper can be changed by config file. But I do not understand why the Open SuSE comes with behavior by default. The other popular Linux destro Ubuntu does not have this problem.
Search for the line
commit.downloadMode
in
/etc/zypp/zypp.conf
By default this line is commented. Uncomment this line and change it to
commit.downloadMode = DownloadInAdvance
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