On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote:[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi addmedia -f --distrib
John, I understand your frustration, but I did not intend to be cryptic. It seems to me that, as others have suggested, you have somehow upset your sources database. I would suggest that you remove them all, replace them as shown below, then use plf's easy_urpmi to add back external sources. I think it was Charlie who sent the following to me:Cryptic remarks acoumplish nothing .I don't think 9.1 is broken per se, or we would all have the problem. However, I think it may well be breakable <g> I used to have this problem with 8.2, and I'm pretty certain that it was the connection between chair and keyboard that started it :-)
Sorry, John. Not poking fun. Obviously if someone can identify what has become broken/disturbed we would all like to know
Anne
An explanation would.
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{LOOK below the next paragraph first Anne} At the root prompt in a terminal:
urpmi.addmedia --distrib file://mnt/cdrom/
with CD1 in the drive it should do what you want. You may have to use the force argument though. Thusly; urpmi.addmedia -f --distrib and so on. Note; there are indeed two (2) hyphens before distrib. You can find the available commands without digging through the man pages for urpm by using urpmi.(addmedia or some other use) -h to get a help screen. Not a lot of information there but it may remind you of the correct command you're digging for. The BASH history may also help if you have used the relevant command recently (the last 50 entries) since it's already there to be rerun. Since this is a new install you probably don't have the command in your history on that machine but one of the others.....?
I'm also wondering if the other command line "shortcut" would help at all. Insert the first install CD in the drive and at the root prompt:
urpmi.update cdrom8
even though that was specifically for CDs containing hdlists that weren't properly loaded by the installer, causing an "everything already installed" in RPMDrake; or not listing packages properly. Worth trying maybe? This is the one from the Mandrake 9.0 errata page here;
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/ru/errata.php3 </quote>
Anne
urpmi: unknown option "-f", check usage with --help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi .addmedia -f --distrib
urpmi: unknown option "-f", check usage with --help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi addmedia --distrib
urpmi: unknown option "--distrib", check usage with --help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi --help
urpmi version 4.2
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 MandrakeSoft.
This is free software and may be redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
usage:
--help - print this help message.
--update - use only update media.
--media - use only the given media, separated by comma.
--synthesis - use the given synthesis instead of urpmi db.
--auto - automatically select a package in choices.
--auto-select - automatically select packages to upgrade the system.
--fuzzy - impose fuzzy search (same as -y).
--src - next package is a source package (same as -s).
--install-src - install only source package (no binaries).
--clean - remove rpm from cache before anything else.
--noclean - keep rpm not used in cache.
--force - force invocation even if some packages do not exist.
--allow-nodeps - allow asking user to install packages without
dependencies checking.
--allow-force - allow asking user to install packages without
dependencies checking and integrity.
--parallel - distributed urpmi accross machines of alias.
--wget - use wget to retrieve distant files.
--curl - use curl to retrieve distant files.
--limit-rate - limit the download speed.
--proxy - use specified HTTP proxy, the port number is assumed
to be 1080 by default (format is <proxyhost[:port]>).
--proxy-user - specify user and password to use for proxy
authentication (format is <user:password>).
--bug - output a bug report in directory indicated by
next arg.
--env - use specific environment (typically a bug
report).
--X - use X interface.
--best-output - choose best interface according to the environment:
X or text mode.
--verify-rpm - verify rpm signature before installation
(--no-verify-rpm disable it, default is enabled).
--test - verify if the installation can be achieved correctly.
--excludepath - exclude path separated by comma.
-a - select all matches on command line.
-p - allow search in provides to find package.
-P - do not search in provides to find package.
-y - impose fuzzy search (same as --fuzzy).
-s - next package is a source package (same as --src).
-q - quiet mode.
-v - verbose mode.names or rpm files given on command line will be installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
So I'm no wiser.
So what exactly is it , that has to be accomplished, and then maybe I can begin to puzzle my way through the option selection to an answer ?
John
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