On Wednesday 04 December 2002 08:13 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: <snip> > Yes you don't have a contrib-source defined. > What I would do on every mandrake-box (for desktop-use) is: > > adding an update-mirror for security updates. > adding contrib-mirror to my sources > adding a plf-mirror to my sources > > in case of a club-membership: > adding a mirror for the commercial packages to my sources > (flash/realplayer/nvidia-rpms and so on ..) > adding a mirror for club-packages > > Your need for searching and compiling by yourself will decrease a lot. > Dying in the abilities of urpmi is worth the try, its the main reason for > mandrake in my case. > > Greets > > Steffen
Great - thanks for the answer! Do you have any recommended (i.e. proven to be reliable) sources for the above? I got to change the update-mirror a couple of times, due to unavailability of specific packages, so I was wondering about the rest (contrib and plf). Thx, Stef
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