On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:26 am, J wrote: > Hi all, > > I run 10CE on my machine, for one or two reasons, and recently I suffered a > HDD failure, and had to do a complete reinstall onto a new HDD. > > I had to download a new ISO set, as one of my CD's was damaged, and would > no longer be seen by my CD ROM drive. > > Trouble is, The ISO is corrupt for the 1st install CD, and it has some > pretty vital packages missing, such as Perl, Drakxtools & Pango to name a > few, and KDE is all but inoperative too. > > I have managed to get the machine onto the net, and can get it to boot into > ICEWM, but all my GUI configuration tools are missing (rpmdrake etc). > > Is there any way I can URPMI stuff whilst working in console? I have > managed to "urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp. etc etc", so the source is set, > but what next? I really want to download every single update, to try and > get it up and running again..... > > Is there a way to urpmi every single package in the ftp directory, without > having to enter each individual package name?. I tried to "urpmi kde* > libkde*" but nothing happened, I got a no such file error... I'm assuming I > am doing something wrong! > > Can anybody offer some advice? using windows XP is doing my head in, and I > want to get back to linux! > > Many thanks, > > James
First you will want to define an updates source as well as the main so you get the fixed versions. Then just urpmi specific package names such as kdebase-common. This will result in all the dependant packages being selected. You can't use wild cards. urpmi --auto-select might be a good first step. That will get you all the missing and updated packages for what you do have installed. HTH Brian
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