Alright I know how to add media to it but how do I tell it where to get the stuff from? It always goes for the CD and never the net. Do I have to remove the CD sources for it to go to the net?
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 06:52 PM, bascule wrote: > you need to add a source to the list of sources that urpmi uses, have > you > read the man pages for urpmi, urpmi.addmedia and urpmi.update? > use the list of download sites from www.linux-mandrake.com to find a > source > that is convenient for you and do similar to the following > (do this as root, you can add yourself to the urpmi group to avoid > this-i > think, though that may just be necessary to actually install using > urpmi) > > #urpmi.addmedia "somename for your source" > ftp://host/path/to/../Mandrake/ > with ./base/hdlist.cz > > this should work, the argument after 'with' is the relative path of the > file > 'hdlist.cz from the ftp path specified earlier, you can also use an > http url > and you can also add user:password@ options as necessary as you would > in a > url window in a browser i.e. ftp://me:mypass@host/path/to/ etc. > > you can use either current 8.1 mirrors or cooker mirrors to download > from, > you could set up a source for each but then when you run urpmi you will > always install the latest version of any package which may not be what > you > want, the mandrake software manager front end promises to let you > choose what > sourcess to look in but i've never tried that, > > this help? > > bascule > > > On Wednesday 14 Nov 2001 8:48 pm, you wrote: >> Can anyone point me to a site showing me how to fully use urpmi? If not >> can anyone tell me how to get it to download stuff from the web instead >> of from the CD's? Also does anyone know of any http sites I can enter >> as >> sources? Thanks. > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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