>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.
I read this too late... and have now downloaded urpmi-3.9-8mdk.noarch.rpm and will do gcc 3.1 later, could only find gcc-3.2-1mdk.i586.rpm maybe this is all due to out of date urpmi:.... when running urpmi-3.3-22mdk.noarch.rpm after doing urpmi.addmedia and urpmi.update for planetmirror, urpmi wanted files that were not on this server. ie urpmi wanted to upgrade within version mdk 8.2 and refused to upgrade between version 7.2 to 8.2. I want just the vanilla 8.2 and urpmi was not helping with this. So I used rpm -Uvh and downloaded the files one by one to fulfill dependencies. after doing this the X server is not starting, though I can log in I investigated apt-get which seemed useful for mdk 7.2, though not yet for mdk 8.x. comment: this is too grindly tedious, to spend two sundays at a console, to not be able to upgrade over the net the mdk distro to 7.2 to 8.2. and still having to the another OS for this message coz its more reliable for this newbie... which will lead me into the next post: is there an easier way? maybe migrating from mdk to deb? TIA Russell
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