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 have now run 'urpmi.update -a' and accomplished what I set out to do.
Still puzzled though - even though 'updatedb' was the wrong command for what I wanted to do, as it is a valid command, why didn't it run? Even though it would not have done what I wanted, surely it should have done *something*?
Margot
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