Removing miktex fails

[why-not-try-calmer]

openSUSE Tumbleweed here, latest snapshot (20210321). Trying to uninstall miktext, installed following the official instructions, sends the following error:

Échec de la suppression de (1781)miktex-21.1-1.x86_64(@System) :
Erreur: Subprocess failed. Error: Échec RPM : miktexsetup: error while loading shared libraries: liburiparser.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory               
error: %preun(miktex-21.1-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 127                                                                                                                       
error: miktex-21.1-1.x86_64: erase failed         

Not sure how to go about this.