On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:04:57 -0500, Joseph Zitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:45:14PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
> > 2. urpmi
> > Mandrake have developed their own dependency resolution utility, urpmi.
> > It can be accessed via the command line or through the Mandrake Software
> > Manager.
>
> This looks promising, but attempts to run it fail with:
> /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/auto/rpmtools/rpmtools.so: undefined
> symbol: rpmSetVerbosity
>
>
> > 4. rpm-get
> > A command-line app designed to be similar to apt-get. It has been written
> > specifically for Mandrake and Red Hat systems, and is part of the official
> > Mandrake distribution.
>
> Also promising. One thing I'm not clear on with it: I have the RPMs
> from Mandrake 8.1 in a directory locally, copied from ISOs. (I tried
> to upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 from the ISOs but it died horribly,
> apparently because it no longer supports my video card, which is
> working beautifully under 8.0.) Is there a way to point rpm-get to
> look there rather than out at an FTP site? Looking in
> /etc/rpm-get.conf was not particularly enlightening.
>
$ rpm -ql rpm-get
/etc/rpm-get.conf
/sbin/dep-check.sh
/sbin/rpm-dep.sh
/sbin/rpm-fle2pkg.sh
/sbin/rpm-get
/sbin/rpm-get-configure
/usr/share/doc/rpm-get-1.4
/usr/share/doc/rpm-get-1.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rpm-get-1.4/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/rpm-get-1.4/Changes
/usr/share/doc/rpm-get-1.4/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/rpm-get-1.4/README
/usr/share/man/man1/rpm-get.1.bz2
/var/rpm-get
Take a look at the README file.
--
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