On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:01, Charles Lee Ying wrote: > I've recently joined the list and noted in the past few days a lot of > references to setting up urpmi sources. So I tried it as well and was > not successful SNIP
If you have trouble with an online source the problem is quite often the quality of the sources. Many mirrors get overloaded and either stop responding or admit only registered users. You can simply test the quality of the source by typing the ftp address in the URL line of a browser. If your browser cannot connect then nor can urpmi. The ftp://ftp.phys.ttu.edu and ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/ sources you are using are currently not responding at all to me. I suggest you try a different source. The closest sources are not always the best. Personally I find ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main very good. The source ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/10.1/ is currently responding, and the command syntax you used is good, so that may have been a temporary issue with that source. There are not many plf mirrors, and some of the few there are, are not very good. Personally I find ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/10.1 very reliable. If you cannot connect to any source, then you may be behind an ftp proxy server, and would have configure urpmi to use a proxy using the media management GUI in MandrakeControl Centre>Software. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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