Thanks again Stew, for being so helpful! Alas... I have more questions!
(see below)
>
> > 2) When I try to install security patches from one of the mirror sites,
> > using the Mandrake Updater, it locates them just fine, but refuses to do the
> > updates because the two packages (sudo and imlib) that need updating are
> > "already installed". Indeed they are already installed, but the installed
> > version is the buggy/insecure one. How do I get it to do what I want? Am I
> > missing a check-box or pull-down menu somewhere?
> >
>
> Ahh, we just had an internal discussion on this, again. As things stand
> now, the updater will not work for PPC, for a couple of reasons:
>
> 1) rpmdrake needs a patch to look in the right path for PPC updates
> 2) the web page that lists the update source doesn't even have entries for
> PPC
>
> I'm trying to get the appropriate folks the act on these, but until then
> you'll have to manually download the updates.
>
> Stew Benedict
It's good to know that the problem wasn't *entirely* with me! (8->)
So, to do that (download the updates and install them) (I'm guessing now:) I
ftp
to the mirror site, locate the PPC rpm's that I need, retrieve them into a
previously empty directory somewhere, and do :
rpm -i *.rpm
in that directory. Or is there some more urpmi or rpmdrake magic that I'm
missing?
Thanks again for your patience!
Rick
