On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: > I have bought the Power Pack edition of Mandrake9.0. > > Installation went very well; then the problem started. > > I have been trying to install extra packages from the CDs. I can install > from the Installation Disks, the International Disk, and the Commercial > Disks. But not from the Supplementary Disk. The packages are listed, and > can be selected. But not installed. > > When I try to install from the Supplementary Disk, I get the error > message:- > > Everything is already installed. (Is this supposed to happen at all?) > > Everything is definitely NOT installed. > > I have tried every combination of disk selection in Package Manager. I have > tried updating. > > Using urpmi <package> (as root) gives an error message that the package > cannot be found. > > I suppose that I could install single packages by clicking on them and > using GURPMI, but that would be just a "work round". It would not fix the > problem I am having with the Package Manager. > > The source is given as:- > > removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS7 > ../base/hdlist7.cz > > The other Supplementary source is 8 instead of 7. These sources compare > with the other sources, so do not appear to be incorrect. > > I have looked in the archives, and can find thisproblem mentioned with > respect to a DVD, but not CDs. > > Please can someone shed some light on the problem and tell me how to > install packages from the Supplementary Disk? > > Many thanks. > > Keith
Keith Is this a fresh install of the Powerpack or are you laying it over your original download installation? If the latter, then you need to delete the download CD source and add the powerpack CD source. There is a special command to use when adding an entire CD set as a source which is :- Insert CD1 and then in a root terminal urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom It will read the source lists for all the other CDs from CD1 If it is a new install, then I would check that /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS7 is indeed the path to the RPMs folder, and that the folder above is called 'base' and contains a file called hdlist7.cz derek
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