bascule wrote: > > i haven't used kpackage for a while, sticking to 'urpmi' on the command line > or 'software manager' in gui mode, both of these will fetch rpms from online > and fetch dependencies but you will need to correctly set up the 'source' for > these, i suggest using 'software manager' for that, for online sources i > believe that this will only work if the maintainer of the repository has > generated an 'hdlist.cz' or 'synthesis.cz' file for the repository and you > specify the location of this file for the source as well as the rpms, this > file is used by 'software manager' to satisfy dependencies, for collections > of rpms held on a mounted filesystem locally you only need to specify their > location, if you have difficulties let us know exactly where you are trying > to get rpms from, > > bascule Hi bascule,
Thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't played with Software Manager much and so I ventured into it. I added two source areas, namely ftp://rpmfind.net and /mnt/cdrom. I assumed that with these two added Software Manager would scan the CD I placed in the drive for RPM's and populate the trees. I clicked on rebuild lists and saw that it didn't even go to the CD-ROM to have a look for RPM's so I went back to the list of sources. The two entries I had added had disappeared! What's up here as I feel a re-install like Windows coming up? -- =========================================================================== Hylton Conacher on KDE 2.1.1 on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk#1 Registered Linux user # 229959 on Mandrake 8 on an i686 (AMD 1 Ghz K7 mobo Licenced Windows user ===========================================================================
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