On Friday 18 Jul 2003 2:45 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >On Friday 18 Jul 2003 11:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >>Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>>On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >>>John, I understand your frustration, but I did not intend to be
> >>>cryptic. It seems to me that, as others have suggested, you
> >>> have somehow upset your sources database. I would suggest that
> >>> you remove them all, replace them as shown below, then use
> >>> plf's easy_urpmi to add back external sources. I think it was
> >>> Charlie who sent the following to me:
> >>>
> >>><quote>
> >>>
> >>>{LOOK below the next paragraph first Anne}
> >>>At the root prompt in a terminal:
> >>>
> >>>urpmi.addmedia --distrib file://mnt/cdrom/
> >>>
> >>>with CD1 in the drive it should do what you want. You may have
> >>> to use the
> >>>force argument though. Thusly;
> >>>urpmi.addmedia -f --distrib and so on.
> >>>Note; there are indeed two (2) hyphens before distrib. You can
> >>>find the
> >>>available commands without digging through the man pages for
> >>> urpm by using
> >>>urpmi.(addmedia or some other use) -h to get a help screen. Not
> >>> a lot of
> >>>information there but it may remind you of the correct command
> >>>you're digging
> >>>for. The BASH history may also help if you have used the
> >>> relevant command
> >>>recently (the last 50 entries) since it's already there to be
> >>>rerun. Since
> >>>this is a new install you probably don't have the command in
> >>> your history on
> >>>that machine but one of the others.....?
> >>>
> >>>I'm also wondering if the other command line "shortcut" would
> >>> help at all.
> >>>Insert the first install CD in the drive and at the root prompt:
> >>>
> >>>urpmi.update cdrom8
> >>>
> >>>even though that was specifically for CDs containing hdlists
> >>> that weren't
> >>>properly loaded by the installer, causing an "everything already
> >>>installed"
> >>>in RPMDrake; or not listing packages properly. Worth trying
> >>> maybe? This is
> >>>the one from the Mandrake 9.0 errata page here;
> >>>
> >>>http://www.mandrakelinux.com/ru/errata.php3
> >>></quote>
> >>>
> >>>Anne
> >
> >John, did you remove all the old entries first?
>
> How do you do that then ?
>
Use mcc Software Manager. There's a button to remove entries.
> >Did you put cd1 into the drive
>
> Of course I did.
>
> >>>urpmi.addmedia --distrib file://mnt/cdrom/ ?
> >
> >I know you used the force flag, but it doesn't look as though you
> > gave the whole command.
>
> No,
> odd command, file://mnt/cdrom/ don't you think.
>
It isn't the complete command. The command as I gave you it worked
for me.
Beyond that, I can't help. Charlie's instructions sorted out my
problem.
Anne
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