Re: [newbie] Software Manager problems
If the problem is that you are unable to add new sites to the list of RPM sources, then you may need to upgrade rpmdrake to a newer version. rpmdrake is the graphical frontend to urpmi, and it's the program that is opened up when you click on Software Manager. I'm assuming that you are running Mandrake 8.1 because this was a common problem. Installing rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk.i586.rpm from http://www.rpmfind.net should fix this. I haven't been able to upgrade to any higher version of rpmdrake on my system, however, because of all of the high level dependencies. But 1.3-106 works great. -Paul Rodríguez On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 16:02, David .. wrote: I'm having a heck of atime getting the Software Manager to work correctly and update and applications I have on my system. When selecting eith Cooker or Security Mirror sites and it tries to connect and get what I assume is a updated list of versions, it just gives me an error(I'm at work right now and don't have the error handy) that says something to the effect of unable to connect to site. I think I've tried most of the mirror sites and all of them report the same error. Is there some funky port number this application is using? I'm running on cable modem and I have a firewall up running e-smith (www.e-smith.org) and the desktop system is running mandrake 8.1 Thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp =_1005599010-1851-1848 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software Manager problems
Thanks Paul I'll try that. The problem is that the mirros site list does loadup, the problem is that all of the sites I've tried keep reporting a error. I'll try and write down the error when I get home. On an other note. When I do a custom install(where I select only the packages I want) I can't get tuxRacer to work. BUT if I install EVERYTHING minus the server stuff tuxracer works. Now that I installed EVERYTHING and tuxracer is working, it's SLOW as heck. Un-playable. I have a Riva TNT2 videocard. I'll try and upgrade the drivers tonight. From: Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Software Manager problems Date: 14 Nov 2001 11:38:50 -0500 If the problem is that you are unable to add new sites to the list of RPM sources, then you may need to upgrade rpmdrake to a newer version. rpmdrake is the graphical frontend to urpmi, and it's the program that is opened up when you click on Software Manager. I'm assuming that you are running Mandrake 8.1 because this was a common problem. Installing rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk.i586.rpm from http://www.rpmfind.net should fix this. I haven't been able to upgrade to any higher version of rpmdrake on my system, however, because of all of the high level dependencies. But 1.3-106 works great. -Paul Rodríguez On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 16:02, David .. wrote: I'm having a heck of atime getting the Software Manager to work correctly and update and applications I have on my system. When selecting eith Cooker or Security Mirror sites and it tries to connect and get what I assume is a updated list of versions, it just gives me an error(I'm at work right now and don't have the error handy) that says something to the effect of unable to connect to site. I think I've tried most of the mirror sites and all of them report the same error. Is there some funky port number this application is using? I'm running on cable modem and I have a firewall up running e-smith (www.e-smith.org) and the desktop system is running mandrake 8.1 Thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp =_1005599010-1851-1848 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Software Manager problems
I'm having a heck of atime getting the Software Manager to work correctly and update and applications I have on my system. When selecting eith Cooker or Security Mirror sites and it tries to connect and get what I assume is a updated list of versions, it just gives me an error(I'm at work right now and don't have the error handy) that says something to the effect of unable to connect to site. I think I've tried most of the mirror sites and all of them report the same error. Is there some funky port number this application is using? I'm running on cable modem and I have a firewall up running e-smith (www.e-smith.org) and the desktop system is running mandrake 8.1 Thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
