On 10-Aug-99 Traci Collins wrote:
> Ken Wilson wrote:
>>
>> Click on the updates icon in KDE. Pick a site and then select the upgrades
>> you need. I usually just get them all. The download and installation of
>> the packages is automatic.
>
> Does this work for all the Mandrake upgrades or just the KDE
It's for Mandrake upgrades.
> upgrades? I normally run in Gnome but I wouldn't mind firing the
> system up in KDE every now and then to simplify the upgrade process.
No need to switch window managers; the icon just points to a program called
MandrakeUpdate, which you can run just as easily by typing 'MandrakeUpdate' in
an xterm from any window manager.
It's really not much harder to just find a mirror site listed on Mandrake's
page and download all the updates from it, then install them with rpm -Uvh. Or
if you don't want to keep the rpm files on your HD, you can put the URL in the
rpm command, e.g.
rpm -Uvh ftp://some.mandrake.mirror/updates/blah-5mdk.rpm
Or you could replace the package name with '*rpm' to do every package in the
directory with a single command, but unless I had a really fast connection I'd
feel safer downloading first and then installing.
> Does this do the kernal upgrades too? Once you have used the KDE
Yes.
> updates icon with a kernal upgrade is there anything else you need to
> do?
I'm not SURE since I haven't upgraded a kernel with an RPM package (I did a
fresh install from an updated CDR), but I believe after installing the new
kernel package, you would need to edit /etc/lilo.conf so that it points to the
new kernel, then run lilo to write the new lilo configuration to the MBR.
-Tom
