On Friday 17 October 2003 08:48 am, kosan wrote: > Trey Sizemore wrote: > > Dale Kosan wrote: > >> I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like > >> the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and > >> yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib > >> directory but I have now idea how or what I am supposed to do. I have > >> found the easy urpmi site but need some help. Can someone post there > >> urpmi config file that has contrib in it? So far Mandrake rules, I > >> have not used it since 7.2 and what a major change! I am running 9.2 > >> rc2 since the iso's for the final are not out. Does mandrake support > >> apt? Thanks in advance.... > > > > There are a couple contrib sources. You can use cooker (more > > cutting-edge packages - like testing and unstable in Debian) or 'strict' > > 9.2 sources. I have been using Cooker, so at the EasyURPMI page I say > > that at the top and then choose my mirror locations from the drop-down > > menus. In step three, it gives me the exact commands to enter as root > > at a CLI to add these to my conf file. From there I just type: > > 'urpmi.update -a' (without quotes) to update the packages from the > > mirrors. I can then 'urpmi evolution' for example to install the > > package. You can also use Mandrake's graphical interface for this. Just > > go to Configuration -> Packages -> Install software (I think...) to see > > what's available. > > Be very careful installing Cooker packages on a 9.2 box. Those packages are meant to run on a cooker system and could seriously f*** up a system that you want to be stable.
Common misperceptions aside, it is much more dangerous to run Cooker than Debian unstable. Cooker is often times broken beyond repair. Last cycle, my cooker box broke two months in and I could not re-install until beta 1 of 9.2 because the installer was broken too. Debain unstable is more like the Mandrake stable distribution. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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