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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