Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:50, Mark Weaver wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:57, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James Heck, I haven't even touched the new distro or the new GUI -- but I do have to work on a number of RH 7.x servers, and man do I miss urpmi. I also think Mandrake RPMs are generally better put together. That is, less likely to be broken and more likely to have the configure options I wanted. In response to James...I've noticed the exact opposite. I'm so fed up with trying to do server with 9.0 I've vowed it will never see any more of the servers I administrate. Whether at home or at the office. 8.2, on the other hand works exceptionally as either a workstation or a server. 9.0 does just dandy as a workstation, but there appears to be a lot needing attention when it comes to the server end. Networking is at the top of the list right now. Mark Well I will admit that Desktops are more of a concern for me than plain servers... And that with MDK it wants a heavy footprint. But I just de-commissioned (by force the hardware died) a 7.2 Mandrake box that had run without a hiccup or a breakin for over 2 years. 24-7-52 ... MDK RH or Slack... each has it's fun points. (slack is very unforgiving ) Biggest problem with RH is that it installs to many problem rpms (telnet r services finger etc) by default. With Mandrake the hassle is for me getting it installed sans gui.(again fewer services fewer holes.) For Laptops... MDK all the way... 2 identical dell boxes the other week... MDK ... installed and running in 30 minutes... RH ... 3 days and only limping. RH and MDK run neck n neck on one point ... I've got updates set up on a cron job... if it comes out I get it and an e-mail to boot. One thing though... MDK does have more options. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:50, Mark Weaver wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:57, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James Heck, I haven't even touched the new distro or the new GUI -- but I do have to work on a number of RH 7.x servers, and man do I miss urpmi. I also think Mandrake RPMs are generally better put together. That is, less likely to be broken and more likely to have the configure options I wanted. In response to James...I've noticed the exact opposite. I'm so fed up with trying to do server with 9.0 I've vowed it will never see any more of the servers I administrate. Whether at home or at the office. 8.2, on the other hand works exceptionally as either a workstation or a server. 9.0 does just dandy as a workstation, but there appears to be a lot needing attention when it comes to the server end. Networking is at the top of the list right now. Mark Well I will admit that Desktops are more of a concern for me than plain servers... And that with MDK it wants a heavy footprint. But I just de-commissioned (by force the hardware died) a 7.2 Mandrake box that had run without a hiccup or a breakin for over 2 years. 24-7-52 ... MDK RH or Slack... each has it's fun points. (slack is very unforgiving ) Biggest problem with RH is that it installs to many problem rpms (telnet r services finger etc) by default. With Mandrake the hassle is for me getting it installed sans gui.(again fewer services fewer holes.) For Laptops... MDK all the way... 2 identical dell boxes the other week... MDK ... installed and running in 30 minutes... RH ... 3 days and only limping. RH and MDK run neck n neck on one point ... I've got updates set up on a cron job... if it comes out I get it and an e-mail to boot. One thing though... MDK does have more options. James O I agree 1000%...MDK all the way. While I really like MDK9.0, I'm still quite frustrated over the networking troubles that seem to exist on the system when it comes to setting it up, getting it running, *correctly*. There don't appear to be these same problems with MDK 8.2. That goes in without a hassle and I've been known to get a server functional with 2 hours. RedHat 8.0 on the other hand is, without a doubt, a workstation ONLY distro. That poor bugger has been so severely crippled when it comes to administrating it as a server I can't even begin to tell ya. More and more...Mandrake is the one and only. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
James, I wholetotally agree with you! On 22 Dec 2002, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:57, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James Heck, I haven't even touched the new distro or the new GUI -- but I do have to work on a number of RH 7.x servers, and man do I miss urpmi. I also think Mandrake RPMs are generally better put together. That is, less likely to be broken and more likely to have the configure options I wanted. On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 12:57, Philip Webb wrote: 021222 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. -- details snipped -- i've been happily running an upgrade 8.2 - 9.0rc1 since September. certainly, 8.0 was awful (very bad KDE) 8.2 quite good, but there's no reason to avoid 9.0 , tho' you might want to try a few things from Cooker. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:57, James Sparenberg wrote: I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James Heck, I haven't even touched the new distro or the new GUI -- but I do have to work on a number of RH 7.x servers, and man do I miss urpmi. I also think Mandrake RPMs are generally better put together. That is, less likely to be broken and more likely to have the configure options I wanted. In response to James...I've noticed the exact opposite. I'm so fed up with trying to do server with 9.0 I've vowed it will never see any more of the servers I administrate. Whether at home or at the office. 8.2, on the other hand works exceptionally as either a workstation or a server. 9.0 does just dandy as a workstation, but there appears to be a lot needing attention when it comes to the server end. Networking is at the top of the list right now. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 23:15, Philip Webb wrote: 021221 John Wilson wrote: The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. you have to do something like 'urpmi-update' or '-rebuild'. That never worked for me, nor did rebuilding the rpm database, which was another suggestion. Having had a bit of a mental breakdown the other day, out of sheer frustration, following which I posted a bit of a rant (apologies for that, everyone) I solved the problem by doing a really minimal reinstall, removing the CD installation sources from Software Manager, and then replacing them with a variety of sources configured from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php ( a great utility, in my opinion). I then installed the latest versions of everything I wanted. Things have been fine since - and I've even now got mplayer installed, which started this whole thing off for me. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was having with a few items (mainly kde 3.0.x) on 8.2, I was convinced to go ahead and go to 9.0 but to upgrade immediately to a Cooker kernel to avoid the 2.3.19 problems (supermount, usb). I have since learned that the Cooker kernels have new problems of their (particularly, it seems, with regards to usb and the atmel wireless driver). Then there are these problems with the software manager. So much to look forward to (not). I get saddled with 9.0 on Monday (when the package will arrive). Has anyone looked into the possibility of forward-porting 8.2 stuff into 9.0? That is, eliminating the 9.0 software manager and compiling/installing the 8.2 software manager in its stead? As it is, with the Cooker kernel problems I am looking at having to build/use the 8.2 kernel to ensure my wireless device works as well as supermount. praedor On Sunday 22 December 2002 06:39 am, David Robertson wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 23:15, Philip Webb wrote: 021221 John Wilson wrote: The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. you have to do something like 'urpmi-update' or '-rebuild'. That never worked for me, nor did rebuilding the rpm database, which was another suggestion. Having had a bit of a mental breakdown the other day, out of sheer frustration, following which I posted a bit of a rant (apologies for that, everyone) I solved the problem by doing a really minimal reinstall, removing the CD installation sources from Software Manager, and then replacing them with a variety of sources configured from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php ( a great utility, in my opinion). I then installed the latest versions of everything I wanted. Things have been fine since - and I've even now got mplayer installed, which started this whole thing off for me. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
On Sunday 22 December 2002 17:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was having with a few items (mainly kde 3.0.x) on 8.2, I was convinced to go ahead and go to 9.0 but to upgrade immediately to a Cooker kernel to avoid the 2.3.19 problems (supermount, usb). I have since learned that the Cooker kernels have new problems of their (particularly, it seems, with regards to usb and the atmel wireless driver). Then there are these problems with the software manager. So much to look forward to (not). I get saddled with 9.0 on Monday (when the package will arrive). Has anyone looked into the possibility of forward-porting 8.2 stuff into 9.0? That is, eliminating the 9.0 software manager and compiling/installing the 8.2 software manager in its stead? As it is, with the Cooker kernel problems I am looking at having to build/use the 8.2 kernel to ensure my wireless device works as well as supermount. praedor 7.2 and 8.2 were excellent distributions I can only agree. The x.0 versions are the ones to be wary of. Considering the troubles I personally had with 7.0 and 8.0 and the ease of 9.0 (the first x.0 version that didn't leave me pining for the previous version) I just can't wait to see what 9.2 will be like. Should be sheer heaven!;o) So maybe you should just wait for x.2 versions (i.e if you can't take the heat.!) if you don't want to take any chances. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
021222 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. -- details snipped -- i've been happily running an upgrade 8.2 - 9.0rc1 since September. certainly, 8.0 was awful (very bad KDE) 8.2 quite good, but there's no reason to avoid 9.0 , tho' you might want to try a few things from Cooker. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks But V9.0 otherwise working fine (so far).
On Sunday 22 December 2002 08:53 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was having with a few items (mainly kde 3.0.x) on 8.2, I was convinced to go ahead and go to 9.0 but to upgrade immediately to a Cooker kernel to avoid the 2.3.19 problems (supermount, usb). I have since learned that the Cooker kernels have new problems of their (particularly, it seems, with regards to usb and the atmel wireless driver). Then there are these problems with the software manager. So much to look forward to (not). I get saddled with 9.0 on Monday (when the package will arrive). Has anyone looked into the possibility of forward-porting 8.2 stuff into 9.0? That is, eliminating the 9.0 software manager and compiling/installing the 8.2 software manager in its stead? As it is, with the Cooker kernel problems I am looking at having to build/use the 8.2 kernel to ensure my wireless device works as well as supermount. praedor Goodness, I hope not. :) The only problem so far has been with urpmi and Software Manager, important though that is. This distro is the first that flawlessly installed my sound card properly (I didn't have to spend half the day getting noise from the speakers), found the right printer instead of the printer family (HP Deskjet 695C instead of HP Deskject 690 family) and actually set up the ISP without a whole lot of bother. I agree that 8.2 and 7.2 were virtually flawless and I expect that 9.2 will be wonderful too. But for most of my uses so far it's a dream. Now if I could only figure out what a M$ security patch did that has blown that machine out of the water so that it won't connect to Samba or the Internet. But I'll save that for another thread. Thaniks everyone. :) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... Blue blows. James On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 12:57, Philip Webb wrote: 021222 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. -- details snipped -- i've been happily running an upgrade 8.2 - 9.0rc1 since September. certainly, 8.0 was awful (very bad KDE) 8.2 quite good, but there's no reason to avoid 9.0 , tho' you might want to try a few things from Cooker. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software Manager Sucks
I've just browsed the list to see if anyone is experienceing the same issues with urpmi and Software Manager as I am and I spotted David Robertson's comments. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I finally upgraded to 9.0 because I figured most of the bugs would be out and, for the most part, they are. But Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm...slowly and it wanted to take over the whole machine..but it worked. It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. Now it's three or four peices none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. KPackage at least reports that properly about installed packages and installs them correctly. But...and it's a big but...the Install Packages keeps blithely insisting I installed everything from all the CDs, which I haven't. As David said one of the joys of Mandrake up to 9.0 was ease of use and ease of setup. This does seem to be gone..right out the window! What I could do on one screen before with software manager now takes 4 and if I'm lucky, which I haven't been so far, it will work. Anyway, I'm back to essentially manually installing packages either from KPackage or the command line. Software Manager is worse than uselsess. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
John Wilson wrote: I've just browsed the list to see if anyone is experienceing the same issues with urpmi and Software Manager as I am and I spotted David Robertson's comments. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I finally upgraded to 9.0 because I figured most of the bugs would be out and, for the most part, they are. But Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm...slowly and it wanted to take over the whole machine..but it worked. It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. Now it's three or four peices none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. KPackage at least reports that properly about installed packages and installs them correctly. But...and it's a big but...the Install Packages keeps blithely insisting I installed everything from all the CDs, which I haven't. As David said one of the joys of Mandrake up to 9.0 was ease of use and ease of setup. This does seem to be gone..right out the window! What I could do on one screen before with software manager now takes 4 and if I'm lucky, which I haven't been so far, it will work. Anyway, I'm back to essentially manually installing packages either from KPackage or the command line. Software Manager is worse than uselsess. ttfn John I am totally agree with you. Does anyone know if it is possible to use rpmdrake from mandrake 8.2 ? I have tried to use rpmdrake package from it, but I can't get it working. Xavier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks
021221 John Wilson wrote: Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? one of the Mandrake staff persons fixed it. Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm ... It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. you can still do that: R-click on the R-hand window. Now it's 3 - 4 pieces none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. you can have them all open at once to make comparisons. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. you have to do something like 'urpmi-update' or '-rebuild'. there has been a lot of discussion re these problems since last summer both here on Expert on the Cooker list: check the archive. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] software manager problems
I'm having a problem with Software Manager with Mandrake 8.1 on my new computer, which I dont have on the old computer. When I try to install a package not on the loaded disk, a prompt asks for a different disk. It must still be mounted though, because I cant eject and change the disk. I can only do so if I su to root and umount. The old computer is a PII 266 on some generic MB, using ext2. The new one is a 1.13 Athalon on an ECS K7S5A, using ext2 on /, and ext3 on the other partitions. (I had problems booting using ext3 on the / partition). Any help would be welcome. Thanks, Gene Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software Manager
Somehow my 3 source cds were no longer available in the Software Manager's source list so I made new ones using the New option under Define sources. Now when I try to do an update it no longer prompts for the correct cd although it shows in the list which one it wants. If I put the correct cd in it will no longer mount it automatically. Anyone know how to configure this or where to look for information regarding it? Thanks Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] software manager
Hi Guys When i run software manager or mandrake update it gets to analysing the 3rd disk part and then hangs at 97%. I had to kill it the other day as it was taking too long to get to the ftp site and maybe i messed things up with kill -9. any ideas pse ? Cheers Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager
At 10:37 PM 10/18/2001 -0500, you wrote: you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work correctly. A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name, and if it finds a different version (hopefully newer) it will download that one instead. Any chance someone could add that? mark Did that ... which is how I've tried multiple servers. :) I agree, it needs some sort of aut-search feature, or a master list of packages and their corresponding locations (with some kind of intelligent auto-update feature to prevent dead links) in the world that the software can grab as part of it's list. - Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager
you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work correctly. A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name, and if it finds a different version (hopefully newer) it will download that one instead. Any chance someone could add that? mark On Wednesday 17 October 2001 06:28 pm, you wrote: So, does anyone else have problems using software manager? Frequently the majority of packages I select to upgrade or install (usually the first) fail to fetch from the server I select. I have tried quite a few servers, same results. Are the files just not there even though SM thinks they are? I have tried this on two different systems as well. Any insight would be appreciated. :) Thanks, Ralph Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software Manager
you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work correctly. A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name, apt (from debian) and apt-get is supposed to be the Right Way to do these sorts of upgrades. Personally I have little experience with these particular tools, not having run Debian. But I think that porting it would not be that major a problem. I've tried a rpm of apt, but it was not usable because the source path files did not include any decent places to search -- which is probably more important than the software itself, is to have a decent sample paths file to start from. It's been suggested numerous times that the debian file format (.deb) is better suited to these types of problems than the rpm file format -- chiefly because of dependency issues. Supposedly, one should be able to type 'apt-get update' and get all files that have changed since the last apt-get, along with all dependencies - so that if package X gets a new version, it'll get X and new versions of packages that depend on X, and if those packages have dependencies of their own, those get downloaded too. I have yet to try this, and have yet to try urpmi, which is Mandrake's an- swer to apt-get (I guess). Even with that, you need a good source path file for it to follow. I have tried rpmfind (with --latest) which can occasionally do a good job at getting new versions, but it sometimes will get bogged down when dependencies (especially complicated ones) enter the picture. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] software manager
I did some updates from cooker and now when I run the software manager to try and install a package I get bad rpm message. However, when I drop to the cl and do an rpm -Uvh it installs just fine. Has anyone else encountered this? Any suggestions of what I might need to update to get it working again? Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Software Manager Problem
Hi All, I just got LM 8.0 Powerpack. I've been trying to add the CDs as extra sources in Software Manager, but it always seems to fail to read the second disk that I put in, and the drive becomes unusable until I reboot (i/o error is the message that I seem to remember) . I'm running a Pioneer 16x DVD ROM drive, of an ASUS Mobo (Can't remember the model at the moment) with a Slot A 700Mhz Athlon. Any help greatfully accepted.
[expert] software manager upgrading?
I finally gave up on cooker (for now). Did a clean install of 8.0 and it seems to work pretty well. I was going through uninstalling packages I don't use (using Software Manager), and I noticed something kind of odd. I had done an upgrade of a dozen or so packages that were newer than what was installed on my system. So now, I'm scrolling through a list of installed packages, and I notice that, for example, samba now has a 2.0.7 *and* a 2.0.9 showing up. Is this deliberate?
[expert] Software Manager
Okay, I've got Mandrake 8.0 installed, and now there's this Samba update out. Since MandrakeSoft seemed to think MandrakeUpdate was such a bad thing, I'm trying to figure out this Software Manager they include. I got it set for security updates and picked a mirror, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to install the Samba update without resorting to ftp and the command line. This is not a new problem to me. I tried figuring this out before beta2 even hit the streets. I had to resort to rpm -Fvh and rpm -Uvh more often than not. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [expert] Software Manager
Hi well, the new software manager has a lot of problems. where is the search in description or file list? but I think the most important problem is the fact that some of the packages only appear in flat mode view. some of the most important ones are: fvwm - my favorite window manager bind-utils - how come this is not installed by default (even in workstation mode)? have you ever heard of a unix without nslookup? knsplugin - konqueror doesn't accepts netscape plugins without it. many others that I can't think of now. I hope they'll fix that soon. On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:00:42PM -0700, Digital Wokan wrote: Okay, I've got Mandrake 8.0 installed, and now there's this Samba update out. Since MandrakeSoft seemed to think MandrakeUpdate was such a bad thing, I'm trying to figure out this Software Manager they include. I got it set for security updates and picked a mirror, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to install the Samba update without resorting to ftp and the command line. This is not a new problem to me. I tried figuring this out before beta2 even hit the streets. I had to resort to rpm -Fvh and rpm -Uvh more often than not. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior Bye -- Haim
