This was the problem. My home directory is NFS mounted. Is there a way to
edit the menu entry for MandrakeUpdate to make it change directories before
it runs?
Darren
-----Original Message-----
From: Balaji Ramani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] 7.2 Mandrake Update problem
This problem can occur if you are running MandrakeUpdate in a directory
which
is NFS mounted and root cannot write to the directory. To solve it, cd to
/tmp and run MandrakeUpdate from there.
Balaji
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 10:23, you wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get Mandrake Update to work? Whenever I try,
> I get "Cannot retrieve the list of packages to update...Try with another
> mirror". I ftp'ed over to some of the mirrors and they're up.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Darren
