Glen (good to hear from you... we were in the same ward)... Well, I have redhat cd's... is it worth it to put redhat on my system? Right now I have Mandrake 9.0 on a PII 333 MHz with 96 mb RAM. I mainly use my linux machine to learn linux on and test new stuff (like, figure out how to get a webserver running and php and mysql working also).
The redhat cd's I got were from a uug install fest in March... I don't know what version they are... would it be worth it to put redhat on here? -- Nathan On Saturday 19 July 2003 09:18 am, Glen Wagley wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:06, Nathan Given wrote: > > I posted to this newsgroup awhile back about apt-get for Linux Mandrake. > > I was told about urpmi and I did my best to install it properly. > > > > Is there a way to test it? What if I get this error... > > > > no package named [thing I was trying to install] > > urpmi is still kind of ghetto compared to apt-get in my opinion. It does > resolve dependencies and stuff for you, but the commands aren't as easy > as apt in my opinion. Most likely you have everything installed > correctly for urpm. One gripe I have about urpm is the fact that I have > to use CDs for installation UNLESS you know how to add sources for urpm > to download from. For example, go to > http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php > I usually select a main, contrib, and update resource. They even tell > you what to type in at the command prompt to add these sources. Then to > install (without using a CD), you have to be a little more patient. > Let's say you want to install some funky xmms plugin. So you type > 'urpmi --media main xmms-funkyplugin' and urpmi says, NO package named > xmms-funkyplugin. So then you try urpmi --media contrib > xmms-funkyplugin. You may or may not get it at the contrib resource. > The main thing is, you need to know the exact name of the package to > install. There is a command called urpmq that queries the rpm database > for you. Read the man page on that. It should help you. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
