On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 11:46 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday November 14 2002 04:50 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: > > I was trying to install Video-DVDRip with urpmi and it said: > > > > Installation failed: > > perl-Event is needed by Video-DVDRip-0.47-0.10.1plf > > libdv.so.2 is needed by transcode-0.6.2-0.20021024.1plf > > liblzo.so.1 is needed by transcode-0.6.2-0.20021024.1plf > > > > I thought urpmi should take care of this anyway? > > > > Cheers, > > Jord > > Since you're goin for plf, I'll assume this is online. I suspect > your problem is not havin all sources. EG, rpms, rpms2, and plf all > available and current. 'urpmi.update -a' is always a good idea just > before tryin to install somethin. Another issue is whether you have > 'curl' installed. urpmi defaults to 'wget' if curl isn't installed. > OTOH, often wget will often complete successfully when curl won't, but > curl doesn't re-login between each d/l as wget does. YMMV, try both > before givin up. > > urpmi-4.0-25mdk > gurpmi-4.0-25mdk > perl-URPM-0.70-10mdk > curl-7.10.1-2mdk > wget-1.8.2-2mdk > > Those are current 9.1 rpms. For your version (8.x, 9.0) look for > similar ones. urpmi is bulletproof, but only if it has all current > sources defined for the rpm(s) you're tryin to install. Install curl, > but if a 'urpmi <package>' fails, then immediately try again with > 'urpmi <package> --wget'. wget's better at identifying if the package is > unavailable because the mirror source you're usin doesn't have it. It > also doesn't succumb to "too many users" (mirror) errors as easily as > curl does. curl's often quicker an prettier tho ;)
Thanks for the reply, I installed curl as it wasn't installed and tried urpmi --wget as suggested. How can I upgrade packages which are already installed. Do I use urpmi? When I try, it says already installed. Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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