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On Friday 31 Dec 2004 14:52, Martin Hardie wrote:
Paul and Anne
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 9 or signal 0
what is the significance of these entries whichi have extraced from below:
no hdlist file found for medium "main" no hdlist file found for medium "main" no hdlist file found for medium "contrib"
It sounds to be in a real muddle. Here's what I would do. Open Mandrake Control Centre > Software Management > Media Manager and remove *all* your sources.
If you are on dial-up, from a root console enter urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom with CD1 in the drive. Skip this if you have broadband
If you are on broadband go to http://www.urpmi-addmedia.org/index2.php and select sources from each group
Whether on broadband or not, from that page you will want a plf source.
Finally, follow Lanman's advice about adding your own rpm repository, and you should have a good working setup.
When choosing your sources, from easyurpmi, bear time-zones in mind. If the mirror you choose is likely to be on a quiet phase at the time that you normally download that should give you a reaonable connection speed. Mirrors do vary on speed, but you can always change a mirror later if you have problems.
Anne
You may also have more success if you use wget instead of curl. As root, open file /etc//urpmi/urpmi.cfg and add the following to the top of the file:
{
downloader: wget
}--
Regards
Margot
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