Ryan Kawailani Ozawa wrote:
So! I tried urpmi, and used easyurpmi linked at urpmi.org, but although the
man entry for urpmi is present on my Mandrake 9.2 install, the
utility/executable itself couldn't be found ("bash: urpmi.addmedia: command
not found").
One more thing... If you have urpmi installed, it probably comes with
one source pre-configured. It may be a slow one in france or something,
but you could probably start using it immediately. Try urpmi.update -a
and see if that works, then just run urpmi rpmdrake, or something like
that. To get the firefox and all that, you'd need to add a cooker
source, though. There is a file to manually edit. You can manually
edit /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg with a new source. I believe you just add
the lines from urpmi.addmedia directly into there, such as
USC9.2_1
ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
with ../base/hdlist.cz
USCcooker_1
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/
with ../base/hdlist.cz
USCcooker_2
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS2/
with ../base/hdlist2.cz
and so on. With USCcooker_2, you can just do urpmi.update -a ; urpmi
firefox, and it should handle all the dependencies and everything.
However, you may want to comment out all cooker sources after you have
firefox installed. In my opinion, Mandrake cooker is extremely well
built, and 5 times more stable than redhat rawhide. I updated from
cooker daily for a year and never had any serious problems. But,
especially for servers, try only to use the 9.2 stuff. If it doesn't
take that urpmi.cfg format, try this one:
USCcooker_2
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS2/
{
hdlist: hdlist.usccooker2.cz
with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist2.cz
}
-Eric Hattemer
