Ignore the past and you will fail Ignore the future and you have already failed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 23:33 Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update?
> David E. Fox wrote: > > 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. > > > > 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) > > > > 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. > > > > > > > >>Hoyt > > > > > > > "/usr/sbin/edit-urpm-media" is the sources gui > "/usr/sbin/rpmdrake-remove" is the remove software gui > "/usr/sbin/rpmdrake" is the gui to add software > "/usr/sbin/MandrakeUpdate" is the gui for updates (if you want to > use their sources) > > All of the above must be run as root or su - > > The gui's run from a terminal kinda helped me learn a little about > what was going on. But I agree with David "urpmi" is the way to go > and faster once you get the hang of it. > > urpmi,urpme,urpmi.update,urpmi.addmedia,etc. I found have some > readable documentation for a newbie like me compared some of the man > pages :-) > > Also on the kernel update you could take a look at this artical on > the Mandrake site. Its a good idea to edit your lilo.conf to be able > to boot to your old kernel in case something goes wrong with the new > kernel installation. > http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php > Thanks for the info. It should be usefull. Hoyt
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