On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 15:11, Russell Davie wrote: > thanks for these tips... > both were eventually successful > > though urpmi is not geting files off server even though urpmi.addmedia and > urpmi.update have been successful > urpmi selects out of date rpm to load to satisfy dependencies. > **Out of date rpm is now fixed with urpmi.removemedia > > how to fix this?
Short answer: You need to run urpmi.update with the source that it's trying to download from so it has current information about which packages are available. One of the problems(?) with cooker is that it has updated packages all the time. I get something like 700 emails a day informing me of updated packages. Slightly longer answer: I recommend getting the version of urpmi in Mandrake Cooker atm. It's *much* better. It deals with the problem of outdated packages much better - I don't know exactly how (which says good things for it), but since I've installed it I've not had to run urpmi.update. It's also a lot faster. The downside of using cooker packages is that you'll find your computer updating all sorts of stuff you may not have wanted updated. The latest urpmi depends on a perl module which depends on perl 5.8mdk. perl 5.8mdk may or may not depend on gcc 3.1 stuff - I upgraded to gcc 3.1 before upgrading urpmi. It's also a little bit painful because the new version of urpmi can deal with the issues with major upgrades like that gracefully. The old one will tend to whinge a bit, but it can be made to do what you want. I hope that answers your question. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
