On Tuesday 04 September 2001 18:39, you wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 4:35 pm, Scott Thurmond wrote: > > I have LM 8.0 installed and everything is working beautifully. My > > question is this: There are some updates out there that I want > > -Evolution being one of them. I opened the software manager and tried > > defining a new source (an FTP source that I got from the LM download > > site.) I tried several of the FTP URLs but each time the software > > manager finishes looking at the site, I open the defined sources and the > > list is gone. It never retains the sources I put in there. For example, > > one of the sources I defined was this one: > > ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/ftp.sunet.se/Mandrake/8.0/i586/ > > > > What am I missing? > > > > Thanks, > > -Scott > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > > I have exactly the same problem, I've posted it on this list several times > but no-one has responded. If any one out there knows the answer please let > us know. > > Is there a known problem with the software manager. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- I had the same problem after re-installing LM8 and not updating immediately - (I had let the "Define Source?" dialog close.) I finally remembered how I did it the first time: Open Software Manager > Define Sources > New > Type > Security Updates Type in "New Sources Name": (I used this one, but any will work)"ftp.ciril.fr" Type in "Choose your mirror": "ftp://ftp:ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/updates"; Click "OK" > "OK" You should see it listed. Switch "All" to "Updates only", then connect to the Internet. After that I had no problem. Hope it works for you -- it's VERY frustrating! Regards, (and good luck!) Andre.
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