On Sunday 22 August 2004 2:03 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I just completed installing everything I thought I might like using > drakeinstall. Approx 4 times the system failed to complete > installation due to various reasons which I could do nothing about. > I.E. working in the w's a gimp package is causing a problem. You can't > deselect it or remove it without loosing a 300MB download. I found a > way to save the 300MB. In a terminal window as root issue the > following command: > 'urpmi /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/*'. You may be left with 1 or 2 rpms that > will not install or any problems with them may be resolved. Anyway its > better than redownloading 300MB again.
Actually, if the package is in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ and you are running 10.0, it searches for the package there before uploading. At least on my system, as I have seen it happen time and time again. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/
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