On Wednesday 11 January 2006 12:43, Per-Anton Rønning wrote: > Thanks a lot for your responses. > I know 10.0 is old, nearly a year. But I did not take the time tto > install it until now, when I was really fed up with SUSE 9.1. > > I downloaded from > ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandriva/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RP >MS according to Kaj's recommendation, > > and chose to install directly. But no installation succeeded, every time I > got the "unsatisfied" message up. (Dependencies? But the message was rather > cryptic) I tried to install various glibc's first, but that did not help.
Hmm... When at the page in question, did you left-click the gcc package ? If so, the software installer should come up and offer you to install with the GUI interface (gurpmi). That should take care of any dependencies. > > NB, since I am new to Mandriva I not familiar with the sw installer, so I > did not find any "import" facility (import from my download directory to > install the .rpm) Red Hat rpm and SUSE Yast has this property, but I may > have missed something. Mandrake uses no *import* facility. Everything (binary) is installed via the urpmi installer. > > Then, urpmi: > The website recommended: > Also, you might want to type urpmi.removemedia -a first, in order to > reinitialize urpmi's setup. I did this. Then I found no more programs in > the program setup list. No, of course not. You just removed your CDs as sources. But if you did the procedure right, you should have ALL packages listed from the new online sources (main, contrib, plf-free and plf-non-free). > > This is what happened, I am sorry that I picked the UK mirror first instead > if Spain. Slip of the mind. I have skipped all the rest, because what happenned is that your urpmi database is locked. Hence all the errors. Don't re-install. That's a Windows thing. Now, instead of typing a lot of hairy advices, I'll suggest as follows : 1. Open a terminal and type "su" to become root. 2. Type "rpm --rebuilddb". Takes some time. 3. When finished, type "exit" twice. 4. Reboot (yes, I know - very un-linux, but in this case...) 5. In a new root terminal (the su thing) type "urpmi.removemedia -a" 6. Type "exit" twice 7. With a browser, go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org 8. Choose your version (10.0) and architecture (i386 ?) Press "continue" 9. Choose your sources for main, contrib (rediris) , plf-free and plf-nonfree 10. Press "continue" 11. Open a root terminal (the su thing) 12. With your left mouse button, select all the text produced in step 10. 13. In the root terminal, middle-click at the prompt. 13. When the text stops scrolling, press <Enter> (sometimes the script stops half-way). 14. When the root-prompt appears ($), you are done. Exit twice. 15. Now, you can open System -> Configuration -> Configure your Computer -> Packaging -> Install software. In the "Search" box, type "gcc" and install. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- ***Sent from a 100% Microsoft-free PC*** ***Running Linux (Mandriva 2006)*** ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
