Hello again John, and thanks for your response.
I didn't think I was being ignored, rather possibly that my questions
left people at a loss.
The update to which I was referring is the "Mandrake Update" in the Software Management section of Mandrake control Center.
I've been getting notices from Mandrake virtually daily informing me of
important updates. Therefore once I got URPMI set up, I think, I thought
the first thing I should do was the update. Perhaps I was mistaken. I
know that a dial up connection isn't ideal, but it's what I've got. My
ISP is a small, local operation and very accommodating. It is nearly
unheard of to get cut off by my ISP even after 10 hours or more of
logged on time.
I wasn't trying to update OO, but, OTOH, I don't really know what I was
trying to update other than trying to keep my installation of Mandrake
9.2 up to date.
Since posting my first request for help on this issue I've realized that
my main menu is now quite truncated. It has a total of 10 primary
listings or groups of listings. I don't for example have a run command
in the list. Many of the groups also have far fewer listings than
previously. The only thing listed under "Office" is "Address Books" and
"Time management". Networking now only has about four sub groups. There
is no instant messaging for example. More importantly, There is also no
listing for opening a console so doing anything from the command line is
literally impossible as far as I can see. And as I said in my first post
I have no sound. I've tried everything I can think of to get it back but
no success. All of these things combined would appear to indicate that
there are more difficulties than no OO.
Do I need to return to Easy URPMI and update the information? If so What should I select and what should I leave unchecked? Providing I can find some way to open a console,can I continue to copy information from that site into a console with no ill effect? I guess the answer to that is no seeing as I've already managed to mess things up pretty well.
Once again thanks for all the help!!
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First, go into MCC, click on Software Management, then on Software Media Manager. Check that you have a medium called 'updates' (without the quotes) and that it is enabled. If you don't have an 'updates' medium, get one from Easy Urpmi. If you do have one, but it hasn't been working, remove it and then install another from Easy Urpmi (you mustn't have two media with the same name, and it must be named 'updates').
Then, go into Mandrake Update. You should get a message 'Download of hdlist.cz from medium updates' with speed and time - mine takes about 10 minutes on dialup.
You should then get the screen with the list of available updates, in 3 sections: Security updates, Bugfixes updates and Normal updates. How many you get in each list depends on how many updates you have already done, and how many packages you have installed.
If there are a lot of updates, I tend to do them in batches because my ISP cuts me off after 2 hours - I do the Security batch first, then the Bugfixes, then the Normal.
I had the disappearing menu problem when I first installed 9.2, but it has now been fixed with one of these updates - I hope it works for you.
Margot
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