>On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Peter R. Wood (Lists) wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a Mandrake 8.0 ppc system which I'd like to upgrade to some of >the > > packages in cooker-ppc. I'm trying to use the version of urpmi to add > > media, but it doesn't seem to like the hdlist files that are on the >server: > > > > [root@wintermute root]# urpmi.addmedia cooker-ppc > > ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/ > > ../base/hdlist1.cz > > wget of [<source_url>/] failed (maybe wget is missing?) > > no hdlist file found for medium "cooker-ppc" > > unable to update medium "cooker-ppc" > > > > I have checked the URL and it is valid, and the relative path to >hdlist1.cz > > is correct. Also, wget is not missing. > > > > Any suggestions? > >
the way i do it is: wget -rm ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/ then in software update i goto define sources then delete cd1 and cd2 and add a new local(not cooker) source pointing to where you downloaded the rpms mike _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
