On Saturday 23 Mar 2002 09:37, Warly wrote: > Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have done an hd.img install of 8.2 which lacked the symbolic link > > from the RPMS directory to the contrib directory, the link being > > called RPMS2. The install proceeded well, except at the end > > libmetakit, gnome-guile, flightgear, kwintv, openuniverse, sylpheed, > > etc were reported as "An error occurred...". These are all located > > in the contrib directory.
Me too, so I stopped the install in the middle of package installation by clicking on the bottom button and created the link to contrib like Ron did. > > > > So I created the missing link and reran the install, choosing "update > > packages only". > > Reread slowly this last sentence I then reran the install choosing expert upgrade and was given no opportunity to enter root password nor add any users - if I cliked on those buttons DrakX always looped straight to Summary. I just did a clean expert install then - which went OK. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM. Registered Linux User 219434. Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Up 18 hours 6 minutes.
