rpmdrake is the drak tool that serves as an interface for package management through urpmi.
You can generally do most of the things from the command-line using urpm* commands, but (1) this is not easy (it seems that those programs weren't meant for mere mortals to work with) and (2) The one thing you cannotdo is the equivalent of 'apt-get upgrade': a command to update your system from the mirrors. urpmi keeps a cache of downloaded packages at /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ . One problem I encountered was that (because it somehow had a problem with my proxy settings: a seperate bug) it has created zero-sized files there, and later installation of files failed. This is probably one thing to check if you try to download a package and immedietly get an error that it can't be installed. Generally the files in this directory a deletable (at least when rpmdrake is not actively downloading/installing) I also found it quite useful to look at the output it spits to it standard output. If you suspect problems with rpmdrake then the first debugging step is to look at this output. This is easy if you run it from a terminal window. Otherwise you can probably have a look at /proc/<ID>/fd/[12] . -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
