>On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:13, Curtis Matthiesen wrote:
> > I'm trying to upgrade my CUPS (as well other programs) to the newest
> > version anyway, when I use Mandrake Update it fails saying that I
>already
> > have CUPS (or the other programs I'm trying to install) installed.
> >
> > Can someone tell me how I can go about doing this, I assume I could do
>it
> > manually by a:
> >
> > RPM -Uvh rpmname.rpm
>
>The command "rpm" is lower case. Otherwise this command is correct.
>
> > But if I could do it via Mandrake Update it'd be much more easier and
> > effective for me.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Curtis
>
>What version on CUPS do you have?
>
> $ rpm -q cups
>
>Mandrake Update only provides security and critical bug fixes. Chances are
>that the newest CUPS version isn't there, or that your chosen update mirror
>hasn't been updated yet.
>
>Do you _need_ the latest CUPS version? Remember, if it aint broke, don't
>fix
>it :-)
>
> > PS Is this posting in HTML format, if so I'm sorry, Hotmail just changed
> > everything and I'm not sure if it is or not, or how I can change it
> > permanently to use non-HTML.
>
>Relax, it isn't in HTML :-)
>
>I wouldn't be surprised if M$ made Hotmail HTML-only (and non-standard HTML
>at that), just to annoy people who don't use Outlook/Outlook Express. Of
>course, it would dramatically increase the load on M$'s Hotmail servers,
>which are well-known to be crash-prone (especially the newer ones running
>on
>Win2K and not FreeBSD).
>
>--
>Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
>
I forgot to ask if you know why, Mandrake Update does this as it upgrades
some of the programs 100%, but others it says that they're already installed
and it doesnt't let me, do you know of a way that I can get it to allow me
to upgrade the software, as like I said b4 it'd save me a lot of time then
doing it manually.
RGDS
Curtis
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