Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote:
I'll throw out a couple of ideas but I have not personally taken these steps.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:21 pm, Eric Fernandez wrote:Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I tried the well-regarded site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to "fix" my urpmi. It did, incompletely. Many of the sites were either unavailable or broken such that urpmi still fails quite often when I try to use it. Anyway, I would like to add the 9.0 CDs to the urpmi database in place of many of the website-based sources. I only have a 56k modem conne tion and doing upgrades/installs online is painful and inefficient. How do I add the CDs (I have the 9.0 box set - Powersuite) to the[...]Since you have the Powerpack, the CDs of the contrib should be already added to your urpmi database. PLF packages are not included in any
I deleted the original sources as per other instructions in this list (plus they weren't working anyway). I would like to try to reset them/rebuild the urpmi database to functionally and properly include the CDs.
I'll try the site you mention though a cursory glance really doesn't tell me what I need specifically. It is somewhat like a manpage. Lots of information but often not really useful if you are not fully fluent in arcane bash/manpage speak.
1) Automagically: How about booting CD1 and performing a packages upgrade; choose no or a couple of extra packages and see if the lists don't get regenerated.
2) With MCC => Software Management => Software Sources Manager: Put CD1 in the reader; add removable source; give your own name (I don't know where the official names come from); give path: /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS; give relative path to hdlist: ../base/hdlist1.cz
IIANM, all the hdlists are in CD1, so browse the other disks to see what RPMS directories there are (doesn't CD3 have RPMS3 & RPMS4?). Give a path as if the pertinent CD were in the reader but have CD1 in: /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2; give virtual relative path to hdlist: ../base/hdlist2.cz etc.
3) There is a 9.0 erratum to fix a malconfigured sources description, which might get the official names back for you, entailing something like: urpmi.update cdrom8, with CD1 in the drive. Just a wag.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#urpmi
4) Someone posted another urpmi howto site, along with an oldie but goodie:
http://urpmi.org/
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jwrobinson/docs.html
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
