On Friday 21 January 2005 02:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > > On Friday 21 January 2005 08:42 am, Julie Sloan wrote: > >>Aron Smith wrote: > >>>On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:26 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: > >>>>>Julie if I may chime in get 10.0 right first then try upgrading to > >>>>> 10.1 much easier BTW do you have broadband ? > >>>> > >>>>What I've done is in my ignorance begun updating 10.1 when what I had > >>>>was six-month-old 10.0 installed from discs. The 10.0 was fine :( > >>>>until I messed it up with this "update." Now it's all screwed up. > >>>>Where do I begin to fix it? I'm sure what I have now is part 10.0 and > >>>>part 10.1 and missing some vital parts of each due to conflicts and/or > >>>>dependencies. Where do I start?? > >>> > >>>put your 10.0 disk in and choose upgrade ..this should resolve *some* of > >>>your problems the main problem is that 10 and 10.1 can and often do use > >>>different kernel versions > >> > >>Thanks Aron, > >>I did that; had one message during install saying graphical interface > >>would not be configured, the rest went quickly. Rebooted and everything > >>looked as it did before; still can't access KMail nor MCC. On reboot > >>got a crash message: > >> > >>Soundserver - the KDE Crash Handler > >>Soundserver (artsd) crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT) > >> > >>What do I do next; see about 10.0 updates at easyurpmi? > > > > I would set up my urpmi sources for 10.0 at > > http://www.urpmi-addmedia.org/ > > or > > http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ > > and make shure you have > > main contrib and updates > > plf and jpackage will also be usefull > > (it is a learning experience isn't it) :-D > > Yes it is! Everything seemed to go fine for a while, I did the following: > > urpmi.addmedia plf > ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/10.1 with hdlist.cz > > urpmi.addmedia --update updates > http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/ >updates/10.1/main_updates with media_info/hdlist.cz > > urpmi.addmedia main > http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/ >10.1/i586/media/main with media_info/hdlist.cz > > urpmi.addmedia contrib > http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/ >10.1/i586/media/contrib with media_info/hdlist.cz > > urpmi.addmedia jpackage > http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/ >10.1/i586/media/jpackage with media_info/hdlist.cz > > urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum && urpmi --auto-select && rpm --rebuilddb && > updatedb && update-menus -n && ldconfig -v > > and each media gave me this: > > unable to take medium "jpackage" into account as no list file > [/var/lib/urpmi/list.jpackage] exists > > then when all looked done, this happened: > > ...retrieving done > examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] > unable to take medium "jpackage" into account as no list file > [/var/lib/urpmi/list.jpackage] exists > One of the following packages is needed: > 1- postfix-2.1.4-2mdk.i586 > 2- sendmail-8.13.1-1mdk.i586 > 3- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 > 4- ssmtp-2.60.7-1mdk.i586 > What is your choice? (1-4) 2 > To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be > installed (6 MB): > perl-URPM-1.03-2.1.101mdk.i586 > popt-1.8.2-15mdk.i586 > rpm-4.2.2-15mdk.i586 > urpmi-4.5-29.1.101mdk.noarch > Is this OK? (Y/n) > > fine so far, but then !!!!!AAACK!!!!!! > > restarting urpmi > One of the following packages is needed: > 1- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 : Offline Mail Transfert Agent (to install) > 2- ssmtp-2.60.7-1mdk.i586 : A minimal mail-transfer agent which > forwards mail to an SMTP server. (to install) > 3- postfix-2.1.4-2mdk.i586 : Postfix Mail Transport Agent (to install) > 4- sendmail-8.13.1-1mdk.i586 : A widely used Mail Transport Agent > (MTA) (to install) > What is your choice? (1-4) 4 > To satisfy dependencies, the following 556 packages are going to be > installed (1088 MB): > > > > I am on dialup. 22Mb takes an hour and a half. Do I need 1088 > additional Mb?????? You don't need AFAIK any of those packages kmail workks a lot better for most of us Mozilla thunderbird is also very good
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