Margot wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Friday 31 Dec 2004 14:52, Martin Hardie wrote:
Paul and Anne
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 9 or signal 0
what is the significance of these entries whichi have extraced from below:
no hdlist file found for medium "main" no hdlist file found for medium "main" no hdlist file found for medium "contrib"
It sounds to be in a real muddle. Here's what I would do. Open Mandrake Control Centre > Software Management > Media Manager and remove *all* your sources. If you are on dial-up, from a root console enter
urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom
with CD1 in the drive. Skip this if you have broadband
If you are on broadband go to http://www.urpmi-addmedia.org/index2.php and select sources from each group
Whether on broadband or not, from that page you will want a plf source.
Finally, follow Lanman's advice about adding your own rpm repository, and you should have a good working setup.
When choosing your sources, from easyurpmi, bear time-zones in mind. If the mirror you choose is likely to be on a quiet phase at the time that you normally download that should give you a reaonable connection speed. Mirrors do vary on speed, but you can always change a mirror later if you have problems.
Anne
You may also have more success if you use wget instead of curl. As root, open file /etc//urpmi/urpmi.cfg and add the following to the top of the file:
{ downloader: wget }
Just one more thought.
Sometimes the package dependencies that urpmi wants are not listed within your current media sites either online or within your own local downloads directory.
You may need to discover what those dependencies are by visiting the home page of the package you are attempting to install and either download the required packages to your local rpm directory, update that, OR, if the site has included a hdlists.cz file, you may wish to add that to your urpmi media..
( I recently discovered, thanks to Mike @ wlug, that the addmedia command for your local directory will work correctly if at the prompt:
# urpmi.addmedia -f -c /path to you rpm directory here/
Note the separation of the 'f' & 'c' switches. )
I love using rpmfind but there there is no hdlists.cz available of course, so I usually end up doing what I suggested in the first option above.
And of course if you specify the full package name, assuming urpmi can see it, urpmi will list the required dependencies allowing for easy searching online. [ I prefer www.vivisimo.com but each to their own. ]
-- Regards
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