You could try opening a terminal window, log in as su and open
gnorpm (while on the internet) it will update itself to include programs
from certain sites as an alternate location for rpms. That is if I read
it correctly :)
Pretty cool
I use gnorpm all the time in KDE this way.
Bambi
root wrote:
> I'm having the same problem with both KPackage and RPMDrake. When I try
> to configure each to look for RPMs from a remote location (ftp or
> http), neither program will do so. KPackage simply stops cold, and
> RPMDrake says it's updating, but nothing happens. I have a good
> connection to my ISP, and I used to be able to make this work with no
> problems.
>
> The only thing in my configuration that has changed is that I have set
> up my Mandrake system to also be a server for another machine to connect
> to the internet via IP-Masquerade. That works fine, and I can browse the
> internet and send/receive email with no problems on my Mandrake machine.
>
> Any ideas?? Thanks very much in advance.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Abbott
> Associate Professor of Theater
> Wabash College
