On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 7:23 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: > Hi Joe, > > I have "gaim" up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger > programs. > > I was never able to follow your instructions using "urpmi" - I tried : > > urpmi.addmedia texstar > ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with hdlist.cz > > many times and never got it to work. I then tried another suggestion by > someone else and the file was available and was downloading for a couple of > hours until I gave up - it never finished. > > Then I went to the texstar ftp site , downloaded the file in a couple of > minutes and clicked on the file and it installed in another couple of > minutes - all by itself - > > Question is why is this not the preferred method of installing new > software - ? Am I missing something ? >
urpmi is better than just downloading the package because Linux apps are modular. They depend on each other. If you install an app using urpmi it will automatically work out which other apps/libraries are needed, find them on the web and install them too. You were lucky with gaim because you already had all the dependencies installed. Had one been missing the install would have failed. With urpmi you do not even need to know where an app is on the net. You just declare a number of 'sources' and whichever one has the most up to date version of the application you want will be used. You can use the Mandrake software manager to browse the available apps. The reason you had trouble with Texstars urpmi source is because you were using the mirror in Turkey which is ***dreadful*** 'urpmi.removemedia texstar' will get rid of it. Go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php to find the path to Texstars ibiblio mirror. While there add a source for contrib and plf and you will gain access to many hundreds of cool applications. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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