# zypper si fail
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-si-fail/28906
**Category:** SLES Install-Boot
**Created:** [November 7, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-si-fail/28906 "2016-11-07T15:59:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-si-fail/28906/1 "2016-11-07T15:59:22Z")
Hi,
there is a src.rpm which can not installed via ‘zypper si file.src.rpm’. A
failed dependency search for ‘kernel-devel’. But this is a RH description of
the parts which are named kernel-source at SUSE.
If I run ‘rpmbuild --rebuild file.src.rpm’ I get the target rpm and can
install these binary with ‘zypper in file.rpm’.
I read the spec file and found a few lines that look for the OS. A test of
this lines at konsole brings me the correct result.
This and the fact that it is possible to run ‘rpmbuild --rebuild’ with the
correct result let me think that there is maybe a little bug in the part
‘zypper si’.
Maybe someone want to have a look at this.
Bye
Bernd
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-si-fail/28906/2 "2016-11-07T16:10:54Z")
Hi
What SLES release and the src rpm your trying to install?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-si-fail/28906/3 "2016-11-07T16:19:23Z")
malcolmlewis wrote on Montag, 7. November 2016 15:14 in
suse.support.server.install-boot :
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> Hi
> What SLES release and the src rpm your trying to install?
> [/color]
> Sorry, this is SLES11SP4 and the lin\_tape-3.0.10-1.src.rpm from IBM.
Bye
Bernd
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-si-fail/28906/4 "2016-11-07T16:28:56Z")
[QUOTE=Bernd;35108]malcolmlewis wrote on Montag, 7. November 2016 15:14 in
suse.support.server.install-boot :
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> Hi
> What SLES release and the src rpm your trying to install?
> [/color]
> Sorry, this is SLES11SP4 and the lin\_tape-3.0.10-1.src.rpm from IBM.
Bye
Bernd[/QUOTE]
Hi
You could try installing with a --no-deps option, but if you have the src rpm there is no need to install, you should rebuild as your user and only install the resulting binary rpm. A rpmbuild directory should be created in your ~/ directory.
Looked for a download link but couldn’t find…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/zypper-si-fail/28906/5 "2016-11-07T16:47:39Z")
malcolmlewis wrote on Montag, 7. November 2016 15:34 in
suse.support.server.install-boot :
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> You could try installing with a --no-deps option, but if you have the
> src rpm there is no need to install, you should rebuild as your user and
> only install the resulting binary rpm. A rpmbuild directory should be
> created in your ~/ directory.[/color]
There is no actual problem at me side. As I wrote I was able to install the
driver. It is running now.
But after a kernel patch it is possible that I have to rebuild again. I want
to make a repository for the src.rpm and install via zypper si so that in
case of a new kernel zypper automaticly rebuild the driver.
Bye
Bernd