On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:49:18 -0400 (EDT), daRcmaTTeR spaketh: >On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > >>I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt >>down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. >>[snip]
> >um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditribution you've >chosen to install on your system. Urpmi takes the misery out of >having to hunt down the package you want to install that you're not >sure which CD it's on. > >EX: �urpmi some-package-name �<ENTER> My installation must be incomplete. I am getting the error: unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)" into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)] exists However, urpmi did popout the cd tray and asked me to insert the cd where the rpm lives. Thanks for the tip. >Another very painless way you can do this very same thing is to use >the systems software manager. It's called rpmdrake. This is the same >�little gem of a program that allows you to do the updates for your >system. >Get to know it. It's not the monster some would have you believe it >is. Actually, it's not the monster it used to be in the 7.X series. Thanks for re-aquainting me to it. -- Matthew O. Persico
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