Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
On Saturday 06 March 2004 1:02 pm, Thinker pondered and enlightened us with: I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE I attempt to update everything? What is the safest environment to be in when updating? I am currently running KDE, playing mp3s with XMMS and browsing the web while urpmi --auto --auto-select is working its tail off. Its no big deal using your box while upgrading. If stuff stops working, maybe its time to take a break at let urpmi do its job. I've done this once before, and its just fine. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
Greg Meyer wrote: I do it in runlevel 5 all the time from the command line. Log out of KDE and then when you see th egraphical login greeter, hit ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a console and do your urpmi --auto-select from there. When done, hit alt-F7 to get back to the greeter. Restart the xserver and then login. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Is this documented somewhere? I never knew before how to get to console from the graphical greeter. Maybe this should be in Twiki? -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:50 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Is this documented somewhere? I never knew before how to get to console from the graphical greeter. Maybe this should be in Twiki? This is a very basic feature of Linux nad has been in exitence since forever. maybe it is so basic that everyone just assumes that everyone else knows how to do it. Actually, there are 6 virtual consoles, VT1 through VT6, accessed with a ctrl-alt-Fx sequence where x number of the console you wish to access. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:50 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Is this documented somewhere? I never knew before how to get to console from the graphical greeter. Maybe this should be in Twiki? This is a very basic feature of Linux nad has been in exitence since forever. maybe it is so basic that everyone just assumes that everyone else knows how to do it. Actually, there are 6 virtual consoles, VT1 through VT6, accessed with a ctrl-alt-Fx sequence where x number of the console you wish to access. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I knew about CTRL+F# through CLI but never knew how to do it from GUI. And I THOUGHT you had to choose permamently between graphical greeter and CLI unless you changed it. Course being the philosophy behind linux I should have known better. TYVM. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE I attempt to update everything? What is the safest environment to be in when updating? Thanks, -=Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
On Saturday 06 March 2004 04:02 pm, Thinker wrote: I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE I attempt to update everything? What is the safest environment to be in when updating? I do it in runlevel 5 all the time from the command line. Log out of KDE and then when you see th egraphical login greeter, hit ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a console and do your urpmi --auto-select from there. When done, hit alt-F7 to get back to the greeter. Restart the xserver and then login. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?
On Saturday 06 Mar 2004 21:02, Thinker wrote: I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE I attempt to update everything? What is the safest environment to be in when updating? Thanks, -=Thinker Well I do it while logged into KDE, and without stopping any services. YMMV If you are worried then do a backup before proceeding. Note: If there is a preexisting config file in /etc which conflicts with the config file from a new package the old config file will be left in place and the new one will be suffixed .rpmnew You should review these files after install is complete to see if there is anything new which needs configuring. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
