Mikkel, Derek and Kaj Thanks I got it going and now can watch my vcd's! Thanks again
Martin On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 17:38, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Sunday 12 December 2004 11:00, Martin Hardie wrote: > >>Hi > >> > >>I have been trying for days to install mplayer and kmplayer using the rpm > >>drake without luck - always bad signatures etc on files needed. > >> > >>so I tried urpmi and it tells ema fter failign i need to update my data > >>base: > >> > >>"You may want to update your urpmi database" > >> > >>how do I do that?? > >> > >>Martin > > > > urpmi.update -a > > That will refresh your urpmi database from all the online sources you > > have defined. You should run this command before you attempt to install > > anything. Running the MandrakeUpdate GUI will run it automatically. > > > > As for bad signatures - A bad signature simply means that the signature > > the packager signed the package with does not match the signature key you > > have stored for that source, and so you cannot be confident you know who > > actually created the package. > > > > > > This could be because of a number of reasons. > > 1/ You do not have a signature key stored for that source. > > 2/ The packager was careless and either did not sign the package or > > signed it with the wrong signature. > > 3/ Someone has tampered with the server and inserted a malicious package > > on the server. > > > > 1/ and 2/ are by far the most likely reasons. So do not immediately > > assume the servers have been tampered with every time you see a bad > > signature message. (I can only recall one instance of a Linux software > > server being tampered with when the Openssh project's download site was > > tampered with a few years ago. It was discovered and fixed within 24 > > hours) > > > > Normally it is quite safe to accept the bad signature and continue with > > the install so long as you trust the source you have defined. (And if you > > do not trust your sources what are doing installing software on your > > computer from them?) > > > > If you do have bad or missing keys you can fix it. > > > > Open MandrakeControlCentre>Software>MediaManagement > > You will see a list of your sources. > > Click on 'Manage keys' and you will see which keys are associated with > > each source and you can see if a key is missing. > > To re-add a key click on 'Edit' in the media management menu and click on > > 'Save changes' The source will be refreshed and if the key is available > > it should be re-added automatically. > > > > For some sources such as Charles Edwards' site this procedure does not > > seem to work in which case you can add the key manually. > > > > wget http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/CAE.asc && rpm --import CAE.asc > > > > Then go to MCC>Software>MediaManager and associate the newly imported key > > with Charles' source. > > > > derek > > One more reasion for getting the "bad signature" error. It is easy to > miss it if you are using the GUI, but if the mirror you are using is > busy, you may not get a connection, so the RPM was not downloaded. Then > there is a could not open file message first, and then the bad signature > message. Using wget to download the RPMs tends to cut down on these, > but it can take a while if it has to do a lot of retrys to get a > connection. > > Mikkel -- :::::::::::::::::: http://auskadi.tk + 34 665757391 + 34 944668670 ::::::::::::::::::
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