On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:22 pm, Franki wrote: > Thanks mr Charlie, > > There was a hdlist.cz file in the contribs dir.. I used that and it > worked.. > > first time for everything huh?? > > I am surprised that mdk don't make a contribs source part of the base > install, its very handy. > > > rgds > > Frank
You're quite welcome Frank. Mandrake is so user friendly that even a "gnubie" such as myself can occasionally answer a question and be right. :-) I don't quite remember what the reasoning was for not including a source at release, something to do with licenses that possibly "don't quite fit" the open source nature of Mandrake Download Edition I think. As long as you get what you need who the heck cares, right? :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 2:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] adding a contrib to urpmi. > > On Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:00 am, Franki wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I want to add a contribs directory: > > ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contri > > >b /RPMS/ > > > > to mandrake9.0's urpmi sources... > > > > how do I do that? I don't really understand the whole synthesis.hdlist.cz > > thing.. and it doesn't seem to work. > > > > can anyone help me out here?? > > > > rgds > > > > Frank > > This is what I used in a terminal (super user) Frank: > <quote> > # urpmi.addmedia contribs > ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPM >S with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz > <\quote> > > That's all one line with single space before and after the word contribs, > after RPMS, and after the word with. I couldn't even find the contribs > (hdlist2.cz) list on the mirror you linked. I did see the one for the Club > and (I think) unsupported though. They're in the directory with the RPMS. > > The path to the hdlist2.cz is (or should be) in the /Mandrake/base > directory, > which makes an interesting relative path to the hdlist2.cz, doesn't it? :-) > > It works here. Hope it helps. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. -- Garfield
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