-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 3:07 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > 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
Thanks Derek; I knew I was forgetting something. That mess I sent earlier was incomplete. I'm still getting "contrib uses invalid database, trying alternative method" or something similar. When I have a few extra minutes I'll get the exact error and post it here. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 15:36:43 up 4 days, 3:42, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.22, 0.23 Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tVmHG11CaRuZZSIRAgpQAJ4/Si0yeQ+vwKLuB+4GrT2tRsj70wCdFVON RWusZz6SPkcEKvrDAAwDLv4= =qDua -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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