Re: [newbie] RPM's
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 03:40, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:49:34 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RPM's Using the install software feature, I downloaded some rpm's which didn't install as it couldn't read the files. Where does it store these, so I can remove them and re-download them? Thanks for any help to a complete novice :-/ Hi Ian, you can find any rpm's or partial rpm's downloaded by urpmi in /var/cache/urpmi. They may have already been removed by urpmi, but if not, they should be therefrom one newbie to another. ;-) Thanks Angus. The problem is every time I remove the offending RPM, and try again, the same thing happens. BTW, the one that fails ends up in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms , so I reckon the system thinks it has the full filewhich it hasn't. Thanks to Kaj for his tip, I'll try that and manually dig through a mirror to get the RPM I need. I love this groupI'm finding out a helluva lot. Like the bit about archiving your home directory and thus saving everything Pity it didn't mention that File-Roller doesn't save hidden files and directories in the archive (by default?) :-( So nowafter frantically trying to reset my config back to where it was...yeah, I thought I would try it.. It's definitely a learning experience :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Broadband for Doon Valley It's a reality!!! Now going penguin hunting!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RPM's
Using the install software feature, I downloaded some rpm's which didn't install as it couldn't read the files. Where does it store these, so I can remove them and re-download them? Thanks for any help to a complete novice :-/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] RPM's
- Original Message - From: Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:49:34 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RPM's Using the install software feature, I downloaded some rpm's which didn't install as it couldn't read the files. Where does it store these, so I can remove them and re-download them? Thanks for any help to a complete novice :-/ Hi Ian, you can find any rpm's or partial rpm's downloaded by urpmi in /var/cache/urpmi. They may have already been removed by urpmi, but if not, they should be therefrom one newbie to another. ;-) HTH. Regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.2~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RPM'S and POP3
Hello All, The RPM stuff was about what I expected,it's not a very good idea to use older RPM when using a more up to date Distro(but it can be done if careful). POP 3 was sorted when I managed to get into NTL's account section and set up so more accounts,I've been trying to do this for a while,and all I use to get was time-outs. Cheers, Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPM'S(shoot me)
Hello All, Are RPM's back compatible?The reason I ask is cause at some point soon I will upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2.I wish to add Texstar's 9.1 RPM's to my software sources,but will this really make a mess of my install? I do realise that there is no way I could use Texstar's kernel update's,but is there any reason I would not be able to install things like RP8 and Flash(plug-in ect) from his site? Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM'S(shoot me)
On Thursday 23 October 2003 10:16 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, Are RPM's back compatible?The reason I ask is cause at some point soon I will upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2.I wish to add Texstar's 9.1 RPM's to my software sources,but will this really make a mess of my install? I do realise that there is no way I could use Texstar's kernel update's,but is there any reason I would not be able to install things like RP8 and Flash(plug-in ect) from his site? Drew You may not have too much of a problem with 9.1 = 9.2 because binary compatibility has been maintained, but as a general rule this is not a good idea. There are packages for flash, realplayer and all the proprietary drivers from the Club Commercial download area, and most of the rest of the stuff that Tex packaged is available from plf, things like liquid, the dvd codecs for mplayer and xine, kde eyecandy, etc., . As for KDE, the KDE 3.1.3 in Mandrake 9.2 is pretty darn close to 3.1.4 because Laurent backported so many patches from cvs. I don't think there is any real feature add between mandrake KDE in 9.2 and KDE 3.1.4. The real jump is going to come from 3.1.x to 3.2 in the spring. If you are really bent on using the old Tex packages, I would ask why do you want to upgrade to 9.2. Why don't you just stand pat on 9.1 and upgrade the to the Texstar stuff? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM's missing of Powerpacks?
Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Agreed Charles! Let's put the are they really there or not? question to bed. If ls -R cd-mnt-point | grep package-name can't see them, they are not there. The question now is: What does Mandrake do about it? Brian, Some of the RPM packages use capital letters, so a bare grep command may not find them if you search for lowercase letters. Cover both bases by, instead, doing a case insensitive search: grep -i package Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM's missing of Powerpacks?
Agreed Charles! Let's put the are they really there or not? question to bed. If ls -R cd-mnt-point | grep package-name can't see them, they are not there. The question now is: What does Mandrake do about it? Whatever they decide is probably OK with me. I am most annoyed right now by the deafening silence! Surely a Yes, we know there's a problem and we are looking at the best way to address it could at least be forthcoming! Wake up Mandrake! Your customers are expecting a response. It's one thing to screw up a delivery - something else altogether to say nothing and let people get madder and madder in the absence of any acknowledgment. Brian On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 05:24, Charles Griffin wrote: There is no reason to be suspicious. Did you read those posts? There were about a half a dozen people reporting the same thing. I saw that post and so I did my own search of all 7 of my Powerpack CD's. Sure enough, those packages are missing. No eroaster, no slocate, no hdparm, and more. I am a huge Mandrake fan and my 8.2 is running great. I think I will always run Mandrake as opposed to another distro. I know I can get those rpms from rpmfind.net or from cooker sites. I'm just a little annoyed that I didn't get everything that I paid for. It's the point of it, that's what bothers me. --- Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 May 2002 1:21 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Check out this post on Mandrake user http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=366 This guy says that he has found 318 RPMs present on the Mandrake 8.2 download edition which are missing from the Powerpack. One of them is slocate which I recall Kaj saying last week he could not locate on his CD's If you do find RPMs missing, you can of course download them from www.rpmfind.net derek When i first installed 8.2 i chose to install open source only, so i limited myself to three CD's off the powerpack, but clicked on everything to install except for DNS server RPM's. I was confused when i went in and couldn't find freeciv or OpenOffice.org. Turns out they were both on the commercial disks, and i had ignored the commercial disks as sources. The first trip through Mandrake Update, i grew a beard while it was setting up its database, found them all for me. Honestly, too many people would pull out of that program beleiving it had locked up when they instead should go and make a coffee while it sets itself up. It is worth it in the long run. I am not saying this is what this guy did but i am suspicious. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com 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
[newbie] RPM's missing of Powerpacks?
Check out this post on Mandrake user http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=366 This guy says that he has found 318 RPMs present on the Mandrake 8.2 download edition which are missing from the Powerpack. One of them is slocate which I recall Kaj saying last week he could not locate on his CD's If you do find RPMs missing, you can of course download them from www.rpmfind.net derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM's, ok, what next? Gnome Pilot installed...
Thank you Shane! I have only had two responses and you both recommend JPilot! Dan B - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM's, ok, what next? Gnome Pilot installed... i use kpilot not gnome, and use a visor, but i can tell you that kpilot will not use USB. have you tried to run USB view to see if your pilot is seen by the system? you might also try jpilot, it does work with USB On Tuesday 26 February 2002 18:19, Dan B opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Alright, I updated my system with Gnome-Pilot as that is suppose to allow me to use my Palm with my Linux box, but the system appears to still not see it. Anyone familiar with a Palm connected to a Linux box? -- Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html 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: [newbie] RPM's, ok, what next? Gnome Pilot installed...
Thank you! I have installed JPilot and I like the look. But I do have a connectivity problem and will have to look at the USB view you mentioned. Thank you again! Dan B - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM's, ok, what next? Gnome Pilot installed... i use kpilot not gnome, and use a visor, but i can tell you that kpilot will not use USB. have you tried to run USB view to see if your pilot is seen by the system? you might also try jpilot, it does work with USB On Tuesday 26 February 2002 18:19, Dan B opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Alright, I updated my system with Gnome-Pilot as that is suppose to allow me to use my Palm with my Linux box, but the system appears to still not see it. Anyone familiar with a Palm connected to a Linux box? -- Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html 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
[newbie] RPM's, ok, what next? Gnome Pilot installed...
Alright, I updated my system with Gnome-Pilot as that is suppose to allow me to use my Palm with my Linux box, but the system appears to still not see it. Anyone familiar with a Palm connected to a Linux box? Dan B Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM's, ok, what next? Gnome Pilot installed...
i use kpilot not gnome, and use a visor, but i can tell you that kpilot will not use USB. have you tried to run USB view to see if your pilot is seen by the system? you might also try jpilot, it does work with USB On Tuesday 26 February 2002 18:19, Dan B opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Alright, I updated my system with Gnome-Pilot as that is suppose to allow me to use my Palm with my Linux box, but the system appears to still not see it. Anyone familiar with a Palm connected to a Linux box? -- Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPM's
I downloaded the new kernel 4.1mdk, Alsa and reiserfs. They are in a directory called /root/download/ I went to package update under ddrakconf, but i can't get it to find them, i did media, local yet it only sees the -17mdk's How do i update these packages. i tried clicking on them via konqueror but it doesn't do anything?
Re: [newbie] RPM's without docs?
i too have had these problems. every package i installed when i first installed mandrake has the docs. packages i have installed since then have the doc directories built, but they are empty. i have only used kpackage for installation, so i wonder if there is a bug? :P "R. David Whitlock" wrote: Ok, second question: I recently downloaded the SSH package available from one of the sites linked off the mandrake web page. I used Kpackage to open and install the rpm, and everything worked successfully, as far as the program goes and all. However, when I look at the installed package for ssh, under ApplicationsInternetSSH, at the file list, I see many files listed which are NOT installed, namely all of the documentation. All files have a green check next to them, the package installed correctly, and all the directories referred to were created, but none of the man pages, or files under /usr/doc/ssh-1.1.27/ are there (this is a blank directory!). Did I do something wrong, or is it that the files were somehow omitted? If so, why do they show up in kpackage's list as there? Thanks, David
Re: [newbie] RPM's without docs?
At 06:03 PM 9/11/99 +, you wrote: i too have had these problems. every package i installed when i first installed mandrake has the docs. packages i have installed since then have the doc directories built, but they are empty. i have only used kpackage for installation, so i wonder if there is a bug? I think this might be a bug with kpackage, as I have had it happen to me also. It seems that any documentation just is not installed when using kpackage. I ended up reinstalling a bunch of packages from the command line, and everything worked ok then. Now I usually use kpackage to view the package contents and install from a commandline.
RE: [newbie] RPM's without docs?
You raise a very good question. I loaded the rpm for mysql and although the package lists all of the docs, none of them made it into the alleged directory, or anywhere else on my system for that matter. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of pete moss Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM's without docs? i too have had these problems. every package i installed when i first installed mandrake has the docs. packages i have installed since then have the doc directories built, but they are empty. i have only used kpackage for installation, so i wonder if there is a bug? :P
[newbie] RPM's without docs?
Ok, second question: I recently downloaded the SSH package available from one of the sites linked off the mandrake web page. I used Kpackage to open and install the rpm, and everything worked successfully, as far as the program goes and all. However, when I look at the installed package for ssh, under ApplicationsInternetSSH, at the file list, I see many files listed which are NOT installed, namely all of the documentation. All files have a green check next to them, the package installed correctly, and all the directories referred to were created, but none of the man pages, or files under /usr/doc/ssh-1.1.27/ are there (this is a blank directory!). Did I do something wrong, or is it that the files were somehow omitted? If so, why do they show up in kpackage's list as there? Thanks, David
