Last week, I hit a wall when my SUSE Linux Enterprise Server license expired, stopping all repository access. Needing PostgreSQL urgently, I couldn\u2019t wait for SUSE to renew my license and had to act fast.
I chose to disable every SLES repository and switched to the openSUSE Leap repository. This worked flawless and made my system usable in very short time. This is why I wanted to make a short blog about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
# First, check what repos are active with:\n$ sudo zypper repos\n\n# In case you only have SLES-Repositories on your system you can disable all of them at once. Otherwise you will be spammed with error messages when running zypper. To disable all repos in one shot, use:\n$ sudo zypper modifyrepo --all --disable\n\n# Now we come to the fun part. Depending on what minor version of release 15 you use, it is needed to change it inside the repository link. In my case I'm using 15.6:\n$ slesver=15.6 && sudo zypper addrepo http:\/\/download.opensuse.org\/distribution\/leap\/$slesver\/repo\/oss\/ opensuse-leap-oss\n\n# Now we only need to refresh the repositories and accept the gpg-keys:\n$ sudo zypper refresh\n\n# From now on we can install any packages we need without ever having to activate the system.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nDisclaimer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n