On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:10, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote:
> I thought all the install problems with packages under mandrake 9.0 would
> be behind me by following this procedure:
>
> 1. Delete all entries in directory /var/lib/urpmi
> 2. Create file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg with zero length
> 3. Delete all files /var/cache/urpmi/headers
> 4. Copy all RPMS amd SRMPS from the Mandrake 9.0 CDROMs to
> a_certain_directory
> 5. Give command urpmi.addmedia Mandrake file://a_certain_directory
>
> Everything seems to go all right but still during package installation the
> system manages to come up with errors like "package allready installed. Was
> this supposed to happen?" for packages that are clearly NOT installed. The
> database is still containing errors.
>
> Ed
>
Try the Mandrake eratta page they discribe this problem and how to fix it
but I cant remember the details.
--
Marc
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