On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:47 pm, Margot wrote: > I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should > update my database. > > I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but > I tried all 3 ways (as user, su and root) and got the response 'command > not found'. > > Tried 'man db' and 'man urpmi', and looked on the TWiki, but couldn't > find a command for updating the database. Help! > > Margot
'updatedb' is the command to update the slocate database for fast file searches. You want 'urpmi.update -a' to update the urpmi databases of all online sources. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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