Tim McKenzie wrote: > > What Warly left obscure is the fact you used the word UPGRADE ;) If the > packages aren't on the system, they're not going to be upgraded.
Of course they are on the syatem - in 9.2 contrib. How could it be otherwise? > The only way > I'd call that a bug is if you specifically checked them in the package list > during this upgrade. I believe that if you check an unchecked/uninstalled > package it should install it. As I explained upthread these are expert upgrade/"packages only" installs. For these cases, the selection panel is displayed with nothing checked - it should not be displayed). I always uncheck the individual package selection checkbox. So the problem remains. > In my case I forgot to make the sym link so I > just installed the ones from the command prompt. Try going through the > install again but choosing Install rather than upgrade. I cannot do a fresh install because of the immense amount of work one must do to get from where the Mandrake installer leaves off to reach a useable system: arrange automount of the home partition on /home, from another linux remove all the contents of /home, replace fstab, replace lilo.conf, get rid of the /mnt directory in favour of a /local directory, set up many more mount points, set up the same set of mount points for each machine on the network under /<machine name>, replace /etc/resolv.conf, replace /etc/hosts, replace rc.local, replace wine.conf, install the iptables RPM (should have been installed by Mandrake), set up iptables scripts (I use MonMotha's), install the nfs-clients RPM, replace /etc/exports, run exportfs -r add a script for setting the clock (ntp-set) with panel invocation, set it executable by root, run kdf and worldwatch all the time, log on as root to set special schema for all root operations (These appear when su to root - this is a bad omission by Mandrake). etc. -- Ron. [au]
