On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > 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.
No problem. :) As for your rpmdrake error it sounds as though there isn't an ftp server defined from which it will grab the updates from. usually the first time you run Mandrake Update it will tell you there aren't any servers defined and allow the opportunity to do so. have you done that before? -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!"
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