[newbie] Need help upgrading from Mandrake 9.0
Hi All, I recently got broadband installed and I wanted to update my Mandrake 9.0 installation to the very latest of... well... pretty much everything - Including KDE, Open Office, etc. My problem is that I don't fully understand the use of urpmi yet. I did the following, Set up some mirrors and hdlist locations Logged out of KDE (I understand that you can't / shouldn't update KDE within KDE) Did ctrl-alt-f1 from the login prompt for a terminal su to root Ran init 1 Did urpmi --auto-select and left it to it (after confirming to get the packages) Problem is it didn't actually DO anything to my sytem. I think what I told it to do was download all the packages and nothing else. I therefore have two requests, 1) Can someone please provide me with mirrors I may need to update properly from 9.0 to 9.2. 2) Give me correct urpmi command. Thanks very much, Stevie :) -- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need help upgrading from Mandrake 9.0
On Monday 16 Feb 2004 10:19 am, Sweeney, Stephen wrote: Hi All, I recently got broadband installed and I wanted to update my Mandrake 9.0 installation to the very latest of... well... pretty much everything - Including KDE, Open Office, etc. My problem is that I don't fully understand the use of urpmi yet. I did the following, Set up some mirrors and hdlist locations Logged out of KDE (I understand that you can't / shouldn't update KDE within KDE) Did ctrl-alt-f1 from the login prompt for a terminal su to root Ran init 1 Did urpmi --auto-select and left it to it (after confirming to get the packages) Problem is it didn't actually DO anything to my sytem. I think what I told it to do was download all the packages and nothing else. I therefore have two requests, 1) Can someone please provide me with mirrors I may need to update properly from 9.0 to 9.2. 2) Give me correct urpmi command. Thanks very much, Stevie :) There is a guide for using urpmi to do an upgrade in the Twiki at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UrpmiUpgrade You do not say what urpmi sources you set up, but you need a minimum of 'main' and 'updates' sources, but you might as well add 'contrib' and 'plf' at the same time while you are at it. And of course you must delete **all** your 9.0 sources. Instead of urpmi --auto-select do urpmi urpmi first. The urpmi package is different between 9.0 and 9.2 so do that one first. It will install about 70 other packages at the same time. Then for the remaining packages use urpmi --auto-select --no-verify-rpm You need the --no-verify-rpm because the way RPM signatures is checked changes between 9.0 and 9.2 and you will not have the signatures on your keyring yet. When install is complete if you refresh the urpmi sources, then the signatures will get imported automatically. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
