On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:46, Owen wrote: > I would like to try another mirror. The question is how do I go about > this? I don't have the foggiest idea on how to use or what any of the > command lines are for. If it doesn't have a icon I'm lost. > Owen
If you have a high-speed connection to the internet, you can very easily reconfigure ALL your sources - base and updates and contribs - in one fell swoop. In the IRC channels we generally just have people run the following command: urpmi.removemedia -a This removes all your current media. Next would be to surf to: http://urpmi-addmedia.org => Follow the directions down to the bottom of the page - it's fairly straight forward. Pick servers that are relatively close to you geographically - for best results. Once that is all done, you will get the command lines spit out at the bottom of the page. You can then copy/paste them into a text editor and then type each line in a console (as root). Once that is done, you can then use either urpmi or the Software Management => Software Updates graphical front end. YankDownUnder -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales ----------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 ----------------------------------------------- > > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I > > should use Linux over BSD? > > No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on > creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it > certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able > to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the > mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the > name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too > technical. (Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux)
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