"/usr/sbin/edit-urpm-media" is the sources guiOn Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:11:13 -0600 "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hope this thread is about to end I seem to have one more problem. I cannot find the package manager in KDE. What is its name?
you mean ark? It's not a package manager in the sense I think you are using, it's an archive viewer. It can look inside RPMs and even install them IIRC.
MandrakeUpdate isn't specifically a KDE app but it can be run from a KDE environment (or a gnome, or ther environment too).
OK at this point I'm assuming you've set an update source and a new source for 9.2 (you're trying to upgrade to 9.2, right?) To upgrade to 9.2 is really a three stage process, maybe a four step one.
1) use Easy urpmi and select a mirror site for main, contrib, plf, whatever else you like, and follow those directions. You should then have a number of command lines to cut/paste from your browser to your root konsole/terminal, executing these one command at a time. If successful, you will have synthesis/hdlists for each one of as many sites or branches you wish. It may be necessary to repeat one or more of these steps, if there is a connection problem.
2) Actually do the upgrade to 9.2:
urpmi --auto-select
3) get coffee/other strong drink (that's why I said a four step process)
4) urpmi kernel (auto-select does not upgrade the kernel. That has to be done separately).
5) (first shalt thou count to 5 ... 1 2 3 5 .. no wait, wrong grp)
urpmi --auto-select --update (I think that's right, you want to install now just the updates for 9.2).
I finished downloading the sources. What happened to the 39+ MB?
They're probably hiding somewhere in /var/lib/urpmi.
Hoyt
"/usr/sbin/rpmdrake-remove" is the remove software gui
"/usr/sbin/rpmdrake" is the gui to add software
"/usr/sbin/MandrakeUpdate" is the gui for updates (if you want to use their sources)
All of the above must be run as root or su -
The gui's run from a terminal kinda helped me learn a little about what was going on. But I agree with David "urpmi" is the way to go
and faster once you get the hang of it.
urpmi,urpme,urpmi.update,urpmi.addmedia,etc. I found have some readable documentation for a newbie like me compared some of the man pages :-)
Also on the kernel update you could take a look at this artical on the Mandrake site. Its a good idea to edit your lilo.conf to be able to boot to your old kernel in case something goes wrong with the new kernel installation.
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php
-- Mike
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