On Wednesday 09 June 2004 10:52 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:08 -0400, Jason Wilson wrote: > > Derek, > > > > Your explanation is MUCH appreciated. I thank you. This AIM package > > that I downloaded was for Mandrake 7.2 but then again, that was a long > > time ago. I didn't realize that there were other instant messaging > > programs that were far better. I am now using Gaim and am very happy > > with it. And how would I use "urpmi"? > > urpmi is a command line tool that you would use in a terminal. The > terminal is in K Menu -> System -> Terminals -> Konsole. Once you have > loaded this, then you can type the command 'su'. This will ask you for a > password. Type in you root password that you made when you installed > Mandrake. Then, you can type 'urpmi <program name>' which will install > the program, if it is in the urpmi database. Or, if you've downloaded an > RPM from the internet, then you can type 'urpmi /path/to/downloadedRPM' > which will install it. > > HTH, > John Drouhard
Oh, I see. So 'urmpi' is actually a command line tool that can only be executed by root. Is that correct? At least it works that way on my system. Thanks for the help, John. Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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