I'm afraid there was a bug we didn't catch before the current Mer release related to zypper.
The bug leaves zypper in an unusable state and typically seems to result in something like: *** glibc detected *** zypper: double free or corruption The workaround is pretty easy; install the latest libsolv0 package using rpm. For armv7hl that is: curl -O http://releases.merproject.org/releases/latest/builds/armv7hl/packages/armv7hl/libsolv0-0.1.0-1.1.armv7hl.rpm rpm -U libsolv0-0.1.0-1.1.armv7hl.rpm We've already started on mer-next so we won't be doing a 0.20121205.2 release. The relevant bug is https://bugs.merproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654 David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."