I had the same problem last week. So I posted the question and this is the reply I recieved. I did allow me to add cooker mirror sites. But it doesn't seem to go out and populate the list of applications with the updates.:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- If the problem is that you are unable to add new sites to the list of RPM sources, then you may need to upgrade rpmdrake to a newer version. rpmdrake is the graphical frontend to urpmi, and it's the program that is opened up when you click on Software Manager. I'm assuming that you are running Mandrake 8.1 because this was a common problem.� Installing rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk.i586.rpm from http://www.rpmfind.net should fix this. I haven't been able to upgrade to any higher version of rpmdrake on my system, however, because of all of the high level dependencies.� But 1.3-106 works great. -Paul Rodr�guez ------------------------------------------------------------- >From: Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] Cooker? >Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:39:56 +1300 > >On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:32:41PM -0600, Timothy R.Butler wrote: > > I know I can do this via FTP, although it appears that Mandrake >Package > > Manager can connect to Cooker for me too. However, when I attempt this >by > > selecting a cooker mirror in the source selection, it chugs along >downloading > > something (the list of files?) for a bit, and then says that "an error > > occurred adding this source." > > This seems to happen on every cooker mirror I try. Any ideas? > >I have this same issue, rpmdrake calls wget and downloads a 12 megabyte >file, which I assume is a package list of some sort, but as soon as it >finishes the download I get an error. This has happened for every >mirror I've tried, it's starting to get frustrating. > >Anyone have any ideas? > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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