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
The difference here is that Mandrake lets the user pick the servers for these things instead of using default ones that come with apt-get. I admit, Mandrake could make this a bit more straight forward, but once you have the media fixed, it's just as easy as apt-get > 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. You can do what you said above using urpmq instead of urpmi, so it won't bug you about installing it. You don't need to know the exact name, the --fuzzy options just lets one look for a string, like apt-cache does. urpmi is not as bad as some people make it out to be. It took me an afternoon to figure out everything cause the man pages I only score a 5 / 10, but I did it. It's all I use to update my systems now. -- Jacob Albretsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
