Ignore the past and you will fail Ignore the future and you have already failed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 22:40 Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update?
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:11:13 -0600 > "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I hope this thread is about to end I seem to have one more problem. I > > cannot find the package manager in KDE. What is its name? > > you mean ark? It's not a package manager in the sense I think you are > using, it's an archive viewer. It can look inside RPMs and even install > them IIRC. > Someone else suggested that maybe I was looking for kpackage. Sounds right but it's not in KDE and neither is mandrake update but it is in gnome. So I used it from gnome, however gnome has problems but I developed a system that works for updates and currently have worked through bug fixes, and normal and working on security. Frankly mandrake update needs to be more robust. It needs too much management. > MandrakeUpdate isn't specifically a KDE app but it can be run from a KDE > environment (or a gnome, or ther environment too). > > OK at this point I'm assuming you've set an update source and a new > source for 9.2 (you're trying to upgrade to 9.2, right?) To upgrade to > 9.2 is really a three stage process, maybe a four step one. > > 1) use Easy urpmi and select a mirror site for main, contrib, plf, > whatever else you like, and follow those directions. You should then > have a number of command lines to cut/paste from your browser to your > root konsole/terminal, executing these one command at a time. If > successful, you will have synthesis/hdlists for each one of as many > sites or branches you wish. It may be necessary to repeat one or more of > these steps, if there is a connection problem. > > 2) Actually do the upgrade to 9.2: > > urpmi --auto-select > > 3) get coffee/other strong drink (that's why I said a four step process) > Tried both coffee calls bathroom & other makes me stupid. > 4) urpmi kernel (auto-select does not upgrade the kernel. That has to be > done separately). > > 5) (first shalt thou count to 5 ... 1 2 3 5 .. no wait, wrong grp) > > urpmi --auto-select --update (I think that's right, you want to install > now just the updates for 9.2). > > > > I finished downloading the sources. What happened to the 39+ MB? > > They're probably hiding somewhere in /var/lib/urpmi. > > Thanks for your comments it does help. Hoyt
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