On Monday 28 July 2003 09:26 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > >On Monday 28 July 2003 06:50 am, Marco Verheul wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I downloaded the latest Evolution form Tekstar and i want to update my > >>current version withthe new rpm. It's in my download directory that is > >>known as one of the sources in the Software Sources Manager (Mandrake > >>Control Center). > >> > >>When I choose to update software it seems that only available updates > >>from a mirror site are shown, not the sources on my own machine. > >> > >>How can i update using my downloaded rpm's? > >> > >>Marco > > > >Do you have your download directory configured as a software source in MCC > > ? > > It's not that obvious how your supposed to do that in MCC. > > But cannot you simply cd to directory <downloaded packages> in a > terminal and then proceed to urpmi <packagename> ,enter> > > I guess not ? > > John
Yes you can, that is a perfectly acceptable way of doing it. You can download a whole bunch of files into a directory, and then to install them do "urpmi *.rpm" and that will install all of them or list dependencies that you don't have covered. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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