Downloaded data exceeded the expected filesize ‘95 B’ when running zypper

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Environment

Google Cloud
Azure Cloud
AWS Cloud

Situation

zypper commands fail with:

Downloaded data exceeded the expected filesize '95 B'

Resolution

As a workaround until a new version of libzypp can be released, include ZYPP_CURL2=1 in the command:

ZYPP_CURL2=1 zypper <COMMAND>

Cause

libzypp-17.37.0 or newer, introduced a new curl-based backend (MediaCurl2) which can handle multiple Content-Length headers when there is HTTP 302 response. This is not activated by default in SLE15.

Status

Reported to Engineering

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Document ID:000021903
Creation Date: 03-Jul-2025
Modified Date:03-Jul-2025
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

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