Re: [newbie] urpmi

[Technoslick]

It's now more obvious to me what I have been doing right or wrong. It makes so much sense the way you have explained things. I now understand why I see duplicates in Software Manager for some files, since I am linking to a 'contrib' folder on the Web and also looking at one on my CD#3. I have noticed that some of the files are of a higher version on the Web site than on my CD#3. Does that mean that the newer version is a better choice? Could I run into dependency problems? This happened to me once already, and I couldn't complete the installation because of libs conflicts.

I will try out the link you gave me and see how it works for me. Even though I asked about 8.2, I still have a system running 9.0 and that is my main focus.

Thanks, Derek,

T

Derek Jennings wrote:

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Tex's RPMS are 9.0 only now, so you do not have the choice. Remember all the links I gave were for 9.0. You should find equivalent links for 8.2 or other releases.

Paths on different mirrors can vary, but it is essentially like this :-

blah...blah/mandrake-devel/unsupported/8.2 contains packages built by volunteers for the 8.2 release and should be quite usable (It contains things like OpenOffice 1.0) (Similarly for 9.0)


blah..blah/mandrake/9.0/contrib is a *snapshot* of what contribs looked like when 9.0 was frozen. It will not change. The applications should be stable. You are using 8.2. There is a copy of 8.2/contrib on CD3 which will already be in your urpmi sources. (It is called RPMS4)

blah..blah/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 is the actual 'cooker' distribution. It changes daily. If you want to be on the 'bleeding edge' you can update a 9.0 system to cooker, but do not be surprised if one day it is broken. Also do not install individual cooker packages unless you know what you are doing.
(I learned the hard way :)

blah..blah/mandrake-devel/contrib contains contributions to the *current* cooker. At the moment these will be close to 9.0, but as time passes they will diverge and may become incompatible.

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If you have CD3 you already have Contrib. Check your sources.
9.0 does not have Contrib on CD3, so an online source is needed.

KDE is awkward, because despite David Faure of KDE being employed by Mandrake, the KDE releases are not urpmi enabled. So you have to download the entire folder into a directory, cd to it and enter urpmi * If there are additional libraries needed, they will not be installed unless they exist in one of your urpmi sources.

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I have no experience of that mirror, but this one is pretty fast at the

moment.
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/sites/carroll.cac.psu.edu/mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS

You can get an idea just by entering the ftp address in a konqueror browser. If it is fast and responsive changing directories, then it is probably a good source.

derek

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