{"id":1175,"date":"2025-12-05T17:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:25:32","slug":"upgrade-7-year-old-opensuse-tumbleweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade 7 year old openSUSE Tumbleweed KVM\/Qemu VM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across an old openSUSE Tumbleweed virtual machine image. It still booted in KVM\/Qemu. When it started I noticed it was from 2018. So I tried to update it (I had to install the correct repositories) and when I did<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <code># zypper dup<\/code> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this is what I saw:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"419\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png 419w, https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-150x25.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a long time, the update was NOT successful. Of course. There was a dependency hell of cpio not able to extract packages, rpm, zypper ,libzypp and several others (all the way to numerous python modules) that I simply could not solve. Bummer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an old openSUSE Tumbleweed virtual machine image. It still booted in KVM\/Qemu. When it started I noticed it was from 2018. So I tried to update it (I had to install the correct repositories) and when I did # zypper dup this is what I saw: After a long time, the update [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reeltoreel.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}