On Monday 09 December 2002 06:49 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:28:56PM -0700, Lorne wrote: > > Thanks. I'm beginning to think that mandrakes software install program > > that apparently uses urpmi is badly broken. I just searched install > > software for minicom and it came up goose eggs! I'm gonna go look on the > > actual CD and see what I come up with. ?? Thanks for the tip though. > > Weird. I just used 'urpmi minicom' today from a root command line, > and it worked fine (installed two packages from Discs 1 and 2). > I didn't try the GUI tool.
Yep, sometthing is definately wrong with Mandrake's idea of gui urpmi! I've hated it since they spit it up into 3 pieces instead of leaving it like it was. I know if finds some things, but for instance today I went looking for minicom. This is a factory install with nothing changed. It does NOT find minicom. Minicom is definately on disk2. ?? Now, I know I amd going to have to learn text based urpmi. Someone tried to help me out a couple of weeks ago, but got the syntax wrong and I didn't have the time to pursue it at the time. I just tried urpmi from the bash prompt to get minicom to install. urpmi.addmedia file://mnt/cdrom doesn't work, urpmi.addmedia /mnt/cdrom doesn't work. urpmi /mnt/cdrom minicom no package named /mnt/cdrom no package named minicom So what would be the exact syntax to simply install minicom from /mnt/cdrom? I've tried what seems logical but not mentioned above, including the exact path to the package. Sorry, I'm having a brain fart I guess.
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