On Fri, 3 May 2002 13:48:12 +0200 Krist van Besien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 uhm.. doen't look like an urpmi problem, but a little mistake the maker of that list made. if you want to install a package that comes in a package "packagename-version-arch.rpm" then the urpmi command should be simply " urpmi packagename " ( without all the rest ) example. urpmi ac3d-mdk-cdcom-1-1mdk.i586.rpm is a bad command. because there is no program called ac3d-mdk-cdcom-1-1mdk.i586.rpm the proper command for this example would be " urpmi ac3d " HTH Damian
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