Praedor Atrebates said: > I am trying to update/upgrade my KDE to the texstar 3.1.3 rpms. When I > run "urpmi kdebase kdelib kdegraphics kdenetwork" it downloads about > half of the required rpms (dependencies) but then craps out with: > > Installation failed, some files are missing: [snip] > You may want to update your urpmi database > > I DID update my database. I just did it again, just now, and ran the > same command again - yet I get the same mess above. How do I get past > this? They MUST exist as it is in the list the urpmi itself generates > based on what exists in the first place.
This is the error that urpmi always gives when it fails to find all of the RPMs in the cache that it was expecting. This can be the result of one of three factors - urpmi.update had not been run first (we can rule that one out here), the RPM didn't exist on the server (unlikely, but it occasionally happens when the hdlist.cz file on the server has not been properly updated), or one or more of the download attempts failed. This last is probably what happened here; as each download is a separate access to the server, some of them may have occured at a moment when the server had reached its maximum number of allowed clients, in which case those connect attempts would have been rejected, while subsequent ones may have succeeded just fine. This behavior can be mitigated somewhat by using wget with urpmi, rather than curl (which is urpmi's default downloader). Try: urpmi --wget kdebase kdelib kdegraphics kdenetwork You'll get more feedback on the connection process, so you'll be more able to determine what's going wrong here. I have the urpmi command aliased to "urpmi --wget" on my system, and urpmi.update is similarly aliased. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
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