Am I missing something ? I've YET to be able to get rpmdrake to work,
however the plain 'ol package manager works just fine! (of course, I
AM running KDE, don't know if KPackage works outside of KDE..)
Go into the settings tab, and for the location of directories containing
RPM packages, just put the path to the server, prefixed by ftp:// - which
in my case lately has been
ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS
and click the "Use" box. When RPM startes, and if there is a network
connection, it loads the directory - or directories if there are multiple
ones filled in and checked. The update tab will show all updates available.
Check the ones you want to install, click the "install marked" button, and
off it goes.
Vinny
On Monday 19 March 2001 23:55, you wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:33:19PM +0100, Frederic Lepied wrote:
> > Gary Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Quick question,
> > >
> > > Since MandrakeUpdate is gone what can I use to do remote updates of RPM
> > > Packages
> >
> > rpmdrake
>
> Bwa ha ha ha! Who's got a Cray to run that thing? Even on my 800MHz
> Athlon it takes literally minutes to get it going. On my PIII 600MHz
> I gave up before it got up and running. I am sure we all here don't
> have close to GHz machines. I feel sorry for the poor bastard who is
> still running a 2 or 3 hundred MHz PII.
>
> b.
