Peter Mann wrote: > When entering > drakconnect, > wdial, > urpmi kdenetwork-kppp (from user ; su just disappears the run command > box) and > ifup ppp0 > on command line, response in each case is "could not run the specified > command" . > You need to run these commands as root. (except ifup) What you will need to do, is from the command line, run "su -" and enter the root password. Then run the commands. After you are done, run "exit" to change back to a normal user. If you have configured your PPP conection, and checked the user controlable box, then you can run, as a normal user, "/sbin/ifup ppp0" and it will gring up the interface.
> drakconf does run, but cannot get it to look anywhere but hard disc (I > see the access light flashing) , the installation dvd (I temporarily > connected a dvd burner so as to install mandriva onto a computer without > a dvd drive), or online sources. Not able to get it to look at a usb > key that is holding rpm and tar files. > >> One way around this is to disable the update source, do the install, >> and then turn the update source back >> on. >> > Sorry, this sounds good, but went straight over my head. > If you are using the GUI, one of the opgions under packaging is "Software Media Manager". You can turn off a Media source there, as well as add new ones. I don't know of a command line utility that will do that. (urpmi.removemedia removes the media, it does not disable it.) With the add custom option, you can add local files or removable media to the places urpmi will look. On the other hand, if you just want to update all the RPMs on the USB key, the you can change to the directory on the key that has all the RPM files, and run, as root, "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" or "rpm -Fvh *.rpm". The first form upgrade any installed RPMs that are older then the ones in the directory, and install any that are not installed on the system. The second form will only upgrade. If an older version of the RPM is not installed, it will not install the version in the directory. The only drawback of this method is that it will not look anyware besides the current directory for needed RPMs to satify dependencies if they are not already installed. Mikkel -- Registered Linux User #16148 (http://counter.li.org/)
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