On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:27, Vox wrote: > On September 1993 plus 3725 days Jason Williams wrote: > > > Evening everyone. > > > > I just installed Mandrake 9.2 via FTP onto one of our servers to test > > out. We are looking for a replacement OS for our servers. One thing I > > wanted to learn is some of the Mandrake specific tools, specifically > > urpmi and msec. > > > > I was working with urpmi trying to learn its functions and have a > > couple of questions. > > > > Is there a way to list the packages that are available to download? > > "urpmq --list" will give you a list of all available packages, > without versions. "urpmq --fuzzy samba" will give you all packages > that have samba in the name or description. I recommend reading the > man pages for all the urpm* commands.
Vox, Except for uprmq I would agree. It's perhaps the least helpful of all of them. It has some... but it's IMHO weak. James PS I know I know.... submit a patch.... *grin* > > > > For instance, I was playing around and typed: > > > > urpmi samba > > > > It gave me a list of dependencies, which is nice, but then said it was > > going to install samba 2.2.8a. Is there a way to grab the 3.0 > > version? > > samba3 is only in contrib, so you need to have a contrib source > configured to be able to install samba3. Due to it being in contrib, > it's named in a distinct way, which in this case means adding the 3 > to the name of all packages. So to install samba3, you do "urpmi > samba3" :) > > > Secondly, is there a way with urpmi to see what versions of the > > software I have? I know I can with rpm -qa |grep <package>. Can you do > > this with urpmi? > > urpmq -r <packagename> will give you the release and version of the > package. The problem with that output is that it'll give you release > and version of available packages, it doesn't care or differentiate > between installed and not installed. I'm not sure if there's a way > of doing the same thing as "rpm -q package" with urpmi. > > Vox
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