On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 10:17 pm, Seth Williamson wrote: > I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system today for the first time. > > I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. > > When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five > minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the > system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But > apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y. > > Another two or three minutes elapses between all the other steps of > determining what packages are needed, contacting the mirror sites, and > finally downloading and installing the software. The downloads themselves > seem to proceed at a normal rate for my connection. > > Then, once the software is downloaded and installed, I can't seem to kill > rmpdrake. It just sits there. After it tells me the software was > installed successfully, and I OK out of that little box, then I hit the > "quit" button, but the button won't depress, suggesting that the app is > locked up or just not responding. I have to kill it with xkill. > > Is this normal behavior? I don't have a particularly fast connection--I'm > on dial-up at 56K--but coming from a Debian distro (Libranet), the whole > thing seems clunky and slow to me, and it strikes me as a bad idea that > newbies can't tell if the update operation is actually moving along, or if > it's locked up.
It is likely you have selected a slow server for updates. Some of them are truly dreadful. You can get a better idea of the update process if you run it from the command line instead of the GUI. You will then see a download progress indication. In a root terminal urpmi.update -a (to update the list of available updates) urpmi --update --auto-select (To update all packages for which an update is available) If you want a fast update mirror try this one. ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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