I installed Mandrake 8.2, from scratch on my system, from the prosuite DVD. 
This DVD comes with many commercial apps.
I now have an icon on the desktop named "commercial CD", which gives me a 
list off apps. If I click the "install" link next to one of the apps I get 
the installation instructions which read something like:

1- use either the Software Manager to install this program 
2 - or as 'root' from the command line: 
urpmi ac3d-mdk-cdcom-1-1mdk.i586.rpm 

Neither of these methods work.

1- the Software manager doesn't list any of the applications (that sit in the 
applications subdir on the DVD)
2- urpmi doesn't find the necessary rpms

The software manager is basically a GUI on top of urpmi, so I guess urpmi 
just hasn't been properly configured upon installation.

How can this oversicht be repaired? I know that I can just go to the 
application directories and do an rpm -U *.rpm there and get the apps, but 
I'm having newbies in mind here. When the information coming with Mandrake 
gives the impression that somthing ought to work in a particular way, than it 
very well should. 

TIA,

Krist





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Krist van Besien                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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