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Just ran MandrakeUpdate and ran into a problem I seem to come across more
often than I ever should. It lists bug and security fixed packages as per
normal but when I select them for install, the rpms do not exist. I get an
error message about
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:38:46 -0500
Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Just ran MandrakeUpdate and ran into a problem I seem to come across
more often than I ever should. It lists bug and security fixed
packages as per normal but when I select them for install, the rpms do
not
that's a mirror load problem; go the command line and do urpmi --wget
--auto-select. urpmi defautls to curl, which barfs on the slightest
error.
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:38, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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Just ran MandrakeUpdate and ran into a problem
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:38:46 -0500
Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Why do they appear in
the hdlist.gz (just updated, fer gawd's sake)
sorry, missed that!
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Nothing's working. The sources are screwed up and the rpms nonexistent
(again). I updated all my sources again, with success, then did the
commandline urpmi bit:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] praedor]# urpmi --update --auto-select --noclean
To satisfy
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:51:01 -0500
Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
I can't update the databases any more than they already are. You can
only be so updated. Where are the rpms?
I've run into this before, and I had to do a complete rebuild of my RPM
database (well, I don't know
but you're still not using the --wget switch. Try it, really.
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:51, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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Nothing's working. The sources are screwed up and the rpms nonexistent
(again). I updated all my sources again, with success,
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And thus the result:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] praedor]# urpmi --update --auto-select --noclean --wget
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (12
MB):
gnome-applets-2.2.3-1.1.91mdk.i586
libopenssl0-0.9.6i-1.2.91mdk.i586
okay, so that verified that the problem isn't a temporary networking
problem or load-exceeded problem, but rather a bad hdlist on that
mirror. What I would do at this point is delete your update mirror and
add a new one, not using the same server.
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:17, Praedor Atrebates
I think that mirror is congested. Loading any of the parent directories
in a browser is pretty slow and the RPMS/ directory has not loaded after
several minutes. I always check the mirror in a browser if there are
problems with MandrakeUpdate; sometimes you will find it is refusing new
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:17, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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And thus the result:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] praedor]# urpmi --update --auto-select --noclean --wget
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (12
MB):
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 18:53, Robert W. wrote:
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:32, Tru64 User wrote:
That was it. I was using sudo.
keyring?? I gotta read about that.
'sudo -H urpmi ...' uses the proper keyring from root's home directory.
ah -- much easier than attempting to get the correct
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:32, Tru64 User wrote:
That was it. I was using sudo.
keyring?? I gotta read about that.
'sudo -H urpmi ...' uses the proper keyring from root's home directory.
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Hi,
Problems with MandrakeUpdate, all updates claim
signature is not correct, should i install anyway?
eg. The signature of the package
`timezone-2.2.5-16mdk.i586.rpm' is not correct:
gpg: signature made Fri 21 Mar 2003 09:07:25 PM EST
using DSAkey ID 22458A98
gpg: Can't check signature: publiv
On Wed Mar 26, 2003 at 06:44:26AM -0800, Tru64 User wrote:
Problems with MandrakeUpdate, all updates claim
signature is not correct, should i install anyway?
eg. The signature of the package
`timezone-2.2.5-16mdk.i586.rpm' is not correct:
gpg: signature made Fri 21 Mar 2003 09:07:25 PM EST
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 09:01, Vincent Danen wrote:
...using sudo to call urpmi? For some reason, when you use sudo, it checks the
user's keyring, and not root's. If you su to root and do gpg --list-keys
Yeah, that is annoying. The insertion of keys into root's keyring
doesn't seem to occur
On Wed Mar 26, 2003 at 10:01:02AM -0800, Jack Coates wrote:
...using sudo to call urpmi? For some reason, when you use sudo, it checks the
user's keyring, and not root's. If you su to root and do gpg --list-keys
Yeah, that is annoying. The insertion of keys into root's keyring
doesn't
That was it. I was using sudo.
keyring?? I gotta read about that.
_Thanks
Richard
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On Wed Mar 26, 2003 at 06:44:26AM -0800, Tru64 User
wrote:
Problems with MandrakeUpdate, all updates claim
signature is not correct, should i install
anyway?
Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 3:32:11 PM, you wrote:
TU That was it. I was using sudo.
TU keyring?? I gotta read about that.
Here you go: http://www.mykidart.com/.sc/ms/dd/1032987946/9/nc/ee/18/Key%20Ring
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Tru64 User wrote on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:32:11PM -0800 :
That was it. I was using sudo.
Bit me too at first, don't feel bad.
keyring?? I gotta read about that.
http://www.mrball.net/keysigning.php
Blue skies... Todd
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Going after the latest cvs and libpng3 security updates for 9.0 and
calling MandrakeUpdate from the root prompt to see the messages, the gui
returns 'package list is void' and the console shows the above message,
with no bits transferred, at sunet, which is available in Mozilla. I
remove
Hello
I wanted to do the suggested update to KDE 3.0.5a with Mandrakeupdate,
but it fails on several packages.
When I select kdelibs, kdeaddons, and several others it says:
Sorry, the following package('s) can't be selected:
kdelibs-3.0.5a-1.1mdk
Is anyone else experiencing this?
I already tried
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Good morning, Guy...
On Saturday 18 January 2003 12:21 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
I wanted to do the suggested update to KDE 3.0.5a with Mandrakeupdate,
but it fails on several packages.
When I select kdelibs, kdeaddons, and several others it
Guy Van Sanden wrote:
Hello
I wanted to do the suggested update to KDE 3.0.5a with Mandrakeupdate,
but it fails on several packages.
When I select kdelibs, kdeaddons, and several others it says:
Sorry, the following package('s) can't be selected:
kdelibs-3.0.5a-1.1mdk
Is anyone else
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 05:23, Joseph Braddock wrote:
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 23:56, James Sparenberg wrote:
If your are using urpmi from the command line you can use the switch
--noclean and it won't erase the rpms.
I haven't tried this, but you should also be able to go into menudrake
and
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 23:56, James Sparenberg wrote:
If your are using urpmi from the command line you can use the switch
--noclean and it won't erase the rpms.
I haven't tried this, but you should also be able to go into menudrake
and add the --noclean to the command for the Mandrake Update
I use red-carpet from Ximian and it works very well, you my share cache
folder using NFS
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 23:26, Paul Fotheringham wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and using the graphical interface MandrakeUpdate.
I have two questions.
1. How do I stop MU from deleting the rpms
Hi,
I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and using the graphical interface MandrakeUpdate.
I have two questions.
1. How do I stop MU from deleting the rpms after they are installed? (I have a
second Mandrake 9.0 box that I would like to update over nfs using the same
rpms.) At the moment they seem to go
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:26, Paul Fotheringham wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and using the graphical interface MandrakeUpdate.
I have two questions.
1. How do I stop MU from deleting the rpms after they are installed? (I have a
second Mandrake 9.0 box that I would like to update
Dimitry wrote on Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:52:50PM -0500 :
I am running Mandrake 9.0 in KDE. In Mandrake Control Center--Software
Management--Software Sources Manager, there are 4 sources: CD1, CD2, CD3 (of the
distro) and update_source. I wanted to remove update_source so I can change the
FTP
I am running Mandrake 9.0 in KDE. In Mandrake
Control Center--Software Management--Software Sources Manager, there are
4 sources: CD1, CD2, CD3 (of the distro) and "update_source". I wanted to remove
"update_source" so I can change the FTP mirror, but I accidentally removed all
sources. How
I was attempting to install the libpcap rpm (to satisfy a dependency
issue for snort) and encountered the following error message:
[/root] MandrakeUpdate
rpminst didn't install: 'libpcap0-0.6.2-3mdk'
'libpcap0-0.6.2-3mdk' added to the already_installed_list
already installed: 'libpcap0', SHOULD
I just ran MandrakeUpdate. Looking at /var/cache/urpmi:
[root@mozart rpms]# ls -l *
-rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 30 06:17
at-3.1.8-4.1mdk.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 30 06:17
bind-utils-9.2.0-0.rc3.2mdk.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r--1 root root
Hi everyone,
I'm getting ready to do a review of Mandrake for my e-zine (Open for
Business, www.ofb.biz), and while I'm pretty well settled into to Mandrake, I
wanted to ask a simple question before I go ahead and review MDK.
It's my understanding, at least, that MandrakeUpdate should work
On Saturday 05 January 2002 20:57, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
It's my understanding, at least, that MandrakeUpdate should work in a
fashion that lets me upgrade any part of my system that Mandrake updates
the RPMS to. Additionally, if I understand right, since Mandrake makes
KDE updates
Thanks Michel and Nelson, I'm getting closer to solving my problem, but I'm
still not quite there.
I should hope so, since I downloaded v2.2.2-17 of kdebase just this morning
Did you have any problems of that? I've tried several mirrors including
ciril.fr and suset.se, and each one shows
Hmm... It all depends on what you want to do I suppose. If there is an
update for 8.1 so that you can get to 2.2.2, then by all means use
that, and only the packages needed for it to work. If you want to get
somewhat more experimental then go for the cooker version, which I think
has been more
Hi all,
does anyone know what the subject means?? I get it whenever I try to use
MandrakeUpdate.
very annoying.
It starts ok,
Starts reading the hdlist files
then it says found 0 headers in cache.
then removing 0 obsolete headers in cache.
then write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg]
I installed Mandrake 8.1 from downloaded iso
everything works perfect sound, video, NIC. So I run Mandrakeupdate
define ftp source and everything is going well. Get the message that everything
is done so I reboot the machine. Now the NIC will not work? What did I do?
The NIC is a
I just did a update via the MandrakeUpdate tool, and I updated something
like this:
NameVersion Installed version Importance
mozilla 0.9.4-4.1mdk0.9.4-3mdk bugfix
Now Galeon wont load any pages, it just says Loading page forever.
What do I do now?
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Ok this is getting too much now let me ask you a SERIOUS question .
Who got MandrakeUpdate working constantly ???
I didnt! Not in Mandrake8 and not in SNF either since MandrakeUpdate is one
of my favoured features of MDK i m a little upset about this i use Mandrake
over 1 year now i started
Hi,
Is there a program that can do the same as Mandrakeupdate in the console?
I need it for a system without X.
I know there's a Mandrake update robot (contrib), but it's a full automated
program. I need more control and I heard it also updates the kernel, a
feature I don't want (I work with
and about if you run it from a terminal, what kind of errors do yout got??
clovis.
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On 04/03/01 at 09:04 Collins Richey wrote:
I run XFCE 99% of the time now (7 sec to start, vs. 30-40 for KDE), and
almost everything I've tried in the KDE/GNOME menus
Exactly the same results. This isn't really a terminal application.
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:59:46 -0300
"Clovis Sena" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and about if you run it from a terminal, what kind of errors do yout
got??
clovis.
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On 04/03/01 at
I run XFCE 99% of the time now (7 sec to start, vs. 30-40 for KDE), and
almost everything I've tried in the KDE/GNOME menus works AOK with XFCE as
the WM, except for MandrakeUpdate.
When MandrakeUpdate opens, it displays a dialog box for entering the root
password. Under KDE, the next panel
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:10:00 -0800 (PST)
John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Simon,
I'd be interested in some of those "tips and tricks" that you mentioned. I can get
done what i
need to, but sometimes it seems to require much manual fiddling.
Hi John,
Here's my list so far:
1.
On 2001.02.05 00:51:27 -0500 Vincent Danen wrote:
On Sun Feb 04, 2001 at 12:12:45PM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/
Ah, OK. Couldn't find a link to that anywhere... sorry.
This isn't really a problem with MandrakeUpdate (well, there could be
two schools of
On Mon Feb 05, 2001 at 10:43:08AM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/
Ah, OK. Couldn't find a link to that anywhere... sorry.
No problem.
This isn't really a problem with MandrakeUpdate (well, there could be
two schools of thought on this). The problem is
OK, for starts, I cannot for the life
of me find a bug-submission method
anywhere on the Linux-Mandrake web-page.
Only the mandrakeexpert.com service and
pay-for-support options. Is there a
better place to post the following
problem?
Problem:
MandrakeUpdate does not seem to deal
with
On Sun Feb 04, 2001 at 12:12:45PM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
OK, for starts, I cannot for the life
of me find a bug-submission method
anywhere on the Linux-Mandrake web-page.
Only the mandrakeexpert.com service and
pay-for-support options. Is there a
better place to post the following
, 2001 9:01 AM
To: Mandrake Expert List
Subject: [expert] MandrakeUpdate and dependencies
Hi,
I'm trying to do an update of my 7.1 system but I want to do
it a few pieces
at a time. I figured, let me start by upgrading
MandkraeUpdate itself but
when I do, it tries to bring in 49 (!) other
Many times that I use MandrakeUpdate, it starts downloading a rpm update
and part way though it says that the has been an error in the download.
If I'm downloading multiple updates it moves on to the next one and
fails on that too. The most revealing case is when I update only one
rpm. The
Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:02:13 +
From: Nick Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake Experts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] MandrakeUpdate problem
Many times that I use MandrakeUpdate, it starts downloading a rpm update
and part way though it says that the has been
hi. i'm running mandrake with high security settings. i installed the
following packages which are needed to run mandrake update:
MandrakeUpdate-7.2-19.1mdk.i586.rpm
grpmi-7.2-19.1mdk.i586.rpm
however: it's still not working. what am i missing? when i try to run
mandrakeupdate, a screen
On Friday 19 January 2001 12:40, Al Baker whistled 300 baud, saying:
Just to second this request for a CLI MandrakeUpdate,
I administer my own server (MDK 7.1), which I normally
What about tailoring either apt (the Debian automated package tool) or
alternatively rpmfind? apt is supposed to be
So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:37:14PM -0700:
Is there a console-only version of Mandrake Update?
Not yet - have a look at the cooker list, someone just started to make a
console version.
OTOH, you could try to connect via telnet to the server, then set the
DISPLAY
I hope it's ready for 7.3/8.0. It would be nice to SSH into my home
system and do updates during spare time at work, rather than wasting
time when I get home.
Alexander Skwar wrote:
So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:37:14PM -0700:
Is there a console-only version of
Hi List,
In the absense of a man or info page or significant HTML documentation for
MandrakeUpdate, I'm interested to know if any lister knows how to tell it to
refresh it's knowledge of what is actually installed. Most of my dozen Mdk
7.2 boxes (fully patched) have erroneous entries in their
The earlier versions, particularly the versions with 7.1 suffer badly
from that problem - getting worse over time. Often doing a manual "rpm
-Uvh problem.rpm" using the rpm that MU downloaded to its cache and
rebuilding the rpm database afterwards would fix it (though in some
cases the actual
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What about exporting the output to the X server on your workstation? i.e.
export DISPLAY=$REMOTEHOST:0
Just a suggestion... while you work on that console version for instance.
Regards,
Michel Salim
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Many of our installations of Linux Mandrake are done as Servers. We
would like to be able to run MandrakeUpdate on these boxes in a
console, without having it run as a GUI.
Is there a console-only version of Mandrake Update?
If not, where can we get the source to MandrakeUpdate (gui) so we can
Just to second this request for a CLI MandrakeUpdate,
I administer my own server (MDK 7.1), which I normally
don't run X on, though I do have it installed to start
up and get an update.
Most servers that I run (apache (with php et al), ssh,
..) I compiled myself so I go right to their source
for
I do not use a monitor on my Mandrake 7.2 machine. Rather I ssh into that
machine.
Whenever I see new patches I usually have to manually go into an ftp site
to download those RPM files.
While this works, I am the first to aadmit that I am very lazy. I'd love
to be able to run a command line
While this works, I am the first to aadmit that I am very lazy. I'd love
to be able to run a command line Mandrake Update utility for that purpose.
However, i think that it is not so hard to write a cmdline shellscript for do
the upgrade for you. The gui version of update uses wget to fetch
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Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 2:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate doesn't work
I got the damn thing working. I installed 100dpi fonts during expert
install
(
, 2000 8:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] MandrakeUpdate doesn't work
Perfect. So not only is Mandrake 7.2 intolerably slow, MandrakeUpdate
doesn't work. I try to start it and all I get is a fast flash of a window
appear and then it disappears in a rapid flash. Almost too fast to see
Well...didn't work, but .xsession-errors is finally producing messages again
and I BELIEVE that these last two lines really do apply to MandrakeUpdate. I
don't understand why it took so long for messages to appear - the file was
empty for many hours, even after trying MandrakeUpdate multiple
edor
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] MandrakeUpdate doesn't work
Perfect. So not only is Mandrake 7.2 intolerably slow, MandrakeUpdate
doesn't work. I try to start it and all I get is a fast flash of a window
appear and then it disappears in a r
Praedor Tempus wrote:
Well...didn't work, but .xsession-errors is finally producing messages again
and I BELIEVE that these last two lines really do apply to MandrakeUpdate. I
don't understand why it took so long for messages to appear - the file was
empty for many hours, even after
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From: Praedor Tempus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 11:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: KDE general mailing list; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate doesn't work
Well...didn't work, but .xsession-errors is finally
I got the damn thing working. I installed 100dpi fonts during expert install
(at least I selected it) but it turns out that they were NOT installed. I
discovered this after trying to deal with some really ugly fonts on my
system. After downloading and installing 100dpi fonts, it works.
Sounds like a DNS problem - timeing out on dns will cause the slowness,
and is also a possibility with MU.
BillK
praedor wrote:
Perfect. So not only is Mandrake 7.2 intolerably slow, MandrakeUpdate
doesn't work. I try to start it and all I get is a fast flash of a window
appear and then
On Friday 08 December 2000 07:27 pm, praedor wrote:
Perfect. So not only is Mandrake 7.2 intolerably slow,
I've noticed some slow down also, mostly loading, after they're
loaded, apps seem to run quicker. This is from 7.2b3-KDE1.94 thru 7.2
KDE2+ 20001122. I'm beginning to narrow this
On Thu Nov 23, 2000 at 09:13:46AM -0800, Jean Meloche wrote:
I've already replied to Jean personally on this, but I will write here
for the benefit of everyone else. The ld.so update was removed
because the problem we were encountering wasn't in the ld.so package.
Jean obviously got in there in
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:30:15 Vincent Danen wrote:
On Thu Nov 23, 2000 at 09:13:46AM -0800, Jean Meloche wrote:
If anyone did manage to download and install the ld.so that was
briefly on updates, I would recommend downgrading to the release
version of ld.so (ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk) or if you are
Hi...
I use MandrakeUpdate ona couple of 7.2 systems.
Yesterday, as part of the normal updates, the
package
ld.so-1.9.11-7.1mdk.i586.rpm
showed up on my home computer. Later when I
ran MandrakeUpdate on the other computer, this
same package did not show up.
I checked the updates ftp
Hey, whats with MandrakeUpdate the last few days - tucows seems
unavailable, and checking the mirror list gives back a much shorted list
(yesterday only one site in France, which worked OK!), today only a
handful, and never has been an Aus site (pointing MandrakeUpdateat at
the aarnet mirror
are there any documents about how MandrakeUpate works? I upgraded a few
days ago to the -17 versions of glibc, but after changing mirrors to
rpmfind.net, the screen showed that an upgrade to the -15 (backwards!)
was required. I did not notice this until after I had answered OK, now,
no matter
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
snipped
At this time I am really suspect that MandrakeUpdate has the ability to
keep a system up to date with the latest updates. This is not an
isolated case as another machine regularly seems to have similar
problems with various packages - tho this is
Submitted 12-Sep-00 by BillK:
are there any documents about how MandrakeUpate works?
It does not appear so. Like a great deal of Mandrake's in-house
development, it seems to be under documented.
I upgraded a few days ago to the -17 versions of glibc, but after changing
mirrors to
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
The version of MandrakeUpdate that shipped with 7.1 seems to be broken, in
that installed updates (and releases older than that which is installed) are
not removed from the list of available updates. I would recommend upgrading
to a newer version.
--
Submitted 12-Sep-00 by Muzza:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
not removed from the list of available updates. I would recommend upgrading
to a newer version.
How much newer can you get then MandrakeUpdate-7.1-9mdk??
(Obtained via MandrakeUpdate)
~ rpm -q MandrakeUpdate
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Submitted 12-Sep-00 by Muzza:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
not removed from the list of available updates. I would recommend upgrading
to a newer version.
How much newer can you get than MandrakeUpdate-7.1-9mdk??
(Obtained via MandrakeUpdate)
I'll try that.but before, I simply had to download them manually.
Thanks.
On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 00:55:37 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Anthony:
Try adding "kdesu -c" (without the quotes) to the Properties, Execute of
the MandrakeUpdate icon on the Desktop. That is, write:
that's odd. i tried again, and did the packages one at a time and it
worked. hmmm...
I have yet to make that stupid thing workit doesn't even ever appear to
download the packages.
Anthony
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999 17:42:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
that's odd. i tried again, and did the packages one at a time and it
worked. hmmm...
Anthonyare you doing this as root? If not is the program asking you
to supply the root password before it proceeds?
Alan
Anthony Speagle wrote:
I have yet to make that stupid thing workit doesn't even ever appear to
download the packages.
Anthony
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999 17:42:22
Dear Anthony:
Try adding "kdesu -c" (without the quotes) to the Properties, Execute of
the MandrakeUpdate icon on the Desktop. That is, write:
kdesu -c MandrakeUpdate
This will allow you to run the Update as root. This should work. If it
doesn't, try downloading and installing individually by
Dear friends:
The credit for this solution belongs to Andrew, a member of our list. I
apologize for not remembering his surname. I hope he comes through to
confirm this.
OK, the solution is a piece of cake (again, please take a bow, Andrew):
On your Mandrake 6.1 desktop, right-click on the
Thank you Benjamin
You had me worried for a while the first time when you said it didn't work for
you :)
Andrew
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Dear friends:
The credit for this solution belongs to Andrew, a member of our list. I
apologize for not remembering his surname. I hope he comes
Dear Andrew M. George:
Thanks so very much again for the solution. Such a simple solution to
such a critical feature of Mandrake.
Thanks again.
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Only problem with this approach is that you throw all local X security
out of the window, I'd
think it would be better to do maybe in a script:
xhost +localhost
do your stuff with update and as soon as your finished
xhost -localhost
to remove the security problem.
Mike Fieschko wrote:
If i run mandrakeupdate as a user from xterm, it doesn't get the rpm's after I
entered the root pw, it just goes back to where you select the packages
If I run mandrakeupdate as root from xterm, it works just fine.
I got the latest mandrakeupdate version.
/ Rickard
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2) What's
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Dear Alan:
Thanks for the advice. Appreciate it.
HOWEVER, there is an Update button on Mandrake's Desktop. It must be
there for a purpose. Indeed, when you click on it, it opens up sends
down various rpms for your select, asks you for your root password,
It's not the mirror, it's the same for both users...
This is what the output say when I run it as a user:
failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
Password:
Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmain.c: line 533 (gtk_main_quit): assertion
`main_loops != NULL' failed.
Password: Xlib: connection to ":0.0"
Rickard Åberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's not the mirror, it's the same for both users...
This is what the output say when I run it as a user:
failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
Password:
Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmain.c: line 533 (gtk_main_quit): assertion
`main_loops !=
Ofcoz I have... Eterm works when su'ing it as root.. (i use the paralogger
script to do so).
/ Rickard
On 21-Oct-99 Pixel wrote:
Rickard Åberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's not the mirror, it's the same for both users...
This is what the output say when I run it as a user:
failed to
Dear Andrew:
Sorry but kdesu -c MandrakeUpdate does NOT work, not in my case, at any
rate. In fact, update just sits there and won't even launch.
Benjamin
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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
What does xhost + localhost reall mean?
XHOST(1) XHOST(1)
NAME
xhost - server access control program for X
SYNOPSIS
xhost [[+-]name ...]
DESCRIPTION
The xhost program is used to add and
You're actually better off using something like sudo. Try to spend as
little time as possible logged in as root because sooner letter you're
going to do rm *.* by accident.
At 12:51 AM 10/21/99 +, you wrote:
Benjaminyou don't have to do it that way. Just run concurrent
xsessions. To do
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