On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:45 pm, Brian Ray Plummer wrote: > hello you all
Hi, > whenever i try to run urpmi to update my packages i get an error > the command i run is: > urpmi --media Updates --auto-select > the error i get is: > You may want to update your urpmi database > my updates source points to > ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/ Do you run " urpmi.update --wget Updates " first? If you do not update the "Update-media", urpmi will not find the proper packages in the update server. > i try rebuilding my rpm database by using the follow command with no > avail: > rpmdb --rebuilddb > am i running the incorrect command to update the urpmi database (most > likely) or is something else the matter??????? rpm database is a list of *installed* packages urpmi database is a list of **existing packages in your sources** They have nothing to do. Try: http://www.urpmi.org Salut, Sinner -- Visit my website! http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/ Running on Mandrake Linux 9.0 - Kernel 2.4.19smp Linux User # 89976 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
