On Wednesday 28 Jan 2004 4:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Mandrake 9.2: > I now have connection to the internet and before I try to improve anything > I think I should upgrade. I have some questions as to how to prepair for > this. I know that some of you have done this recently. > 1. How long does it take on a dialup system? > 2. Is there an upgrade program like "getright" or simular that can be used? > 3. What should I do to get ready for this? > > # 3 is the biggest concern. I.E. Should I uninstall the program currently > installed before installing a new version? How does the system know what > programs to download or do I have to do each rpm by itself? I need as much > verbage as you are willing to write. > > Regards; > Hoyt
1/ It will take a gazillion years on dialup. There are a lot of updates for 9.2 However you can do it in small steps at a time. Implement the important upgrades first and do a few each time you connect. The most important package to upgrade is the 'rpm' package because that one causes your KDE menus to disappear if you do not upgrade it. Through Mandrake Club it is possible to download a set of ISOs with the updates already included. Some linux CD suppliers will also sell you for a small sum a CD containing the updates http://www.linux-emporium.co.uk/products/compilations/#MandrakeUpdate 2/ Yes of course there is. In Mandrake Control Centre>Software there is the Mandrake Update GUI which will manage your updates for you. You can filter on security updates, bugfix updates, and normal updates. You can select which packages you want to update. Where upgrading one package demands the updating of another. The other packages will get included in the update automatically. Before you can do the updates you need to define an update source. The easiest way to do that it to go to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and select an update source for 9.2 Tip: The nearest source is not necessarily the fastest Tip: The rediris source in Spain is *really* fast The web page will give you the text to type into a root terminal. Tip: To get a root terminal type su in a normal terminal. Tip: To copy paste in Linux highlight with mouse to copy. Press mouse wheel to paste. Do *not* follow the advice on the web page about doing urpmi.removemedia -a It will screw up your CD sources if you do. When you define a source it will download a file listing the packages available. At a later date you might like to come back and define sources for contrib and plf Then you will be able to install lots of extra software online. 3/ You do not need to uninstall anything. Just run the Mandrake Update GUI. It will first of all check to see if there any new updates. Then select the update types you want to check for. Then read the descriptions of the available updates and decide if you want them. If you do tick the box, and then press the Update button when you think you have ticked enough. It will remove the old versions and replace them with the new ones. The only problem you will have is it will be slow because you are on dial up. I suggest just updating 1 or 2 packages each time. See here http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/92/en/Starter.html/software-management.html derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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