James Sparenberg wrote:
use the urpmi.addmedia command to add a cooker mirror. Right now
(assuming you installed from CD) the only thing you have is the CD's in
your urpmi database. So if your favorite mirror is foo
My favorite mirror is my rsync: /mnt/mandrake/cooker, updated about an hour ago, after having updated prior to the original cooker install on Friday, and again before running update from floppy boot on Saturday.
urpmi.addmedia cooker-updates
ftp://www.foo.com/pub/Mandrake-devel/Mandrake/RPMS with
../base/hdlist.cz
(above all one line and just an example)
OK:
urpmi.addmedia cooker-updates file://mnt/mandrake/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia --help will give you more
I found what appeared to be correct syntax in man urpmi.addmedia. I got output messages that appeared to confirm it to be doing what I needed it to do. However, when I went to X to run "update software", I got the following:
"The list of updates is void. This means that either there is no available update for the packages installed on your computer, or you already installed all of them."
Why must this be so difficult?
What was the exact command you used to update?
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