On Tuesday 13 February 2001 10:52 pm, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Mandrake 7.2 on a nondescript P133, 32Mb memory.
> I did a "developer" install (which doesn't install everything, as I
> later found) and tried to get the live updates with the GUI. It
> picks a site at random, and I select "Update All", and over the next
> day or so it happily updates most things. There were some warnings
> about conflicts, so I played it safe and skipped them (I guess Update
> processes in alphabetical order, instead of making a dependency
> tree).
>
> However, at the end there were still many modules which cannot be
> updated at all, even when I select them exclusively, for example
> apache, kde, glibc, etc. The error is "Error accessing remote file"
> (or similar; I didn't write it down).
Don't update things you don't use (Apache?), uninstall them. The
newest glibc for 7.2 is on cooker mirrors in the /unsupported dir, same
for KDE2, Xfree86, egcs, and some others.
There's been so many updates to 7.2, it's better to only do 2,3,or
4 at a time rather than 'select all'. It's advised to install the
'MandrakeUpdate' update first. Also with the larger files (mb's) it's
better to d/l them and install manually. Between these partial update
installs it's a good idea to regularly run 'rpm --rebuilddb'
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
