[newbie] URPMI help
Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Thanks. PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On March 4, 2005 09:48 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Sounds like the servers are no longer holding 9.2 PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( I don't think plf is kept on the same servers. I could be wrong Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Mar 4 09:55:05 EST 2005 09:55:05 up 20:56, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.08, 0.01 If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs? -- Marvin Kitman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Thanks. PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? I just tried it and it works. BTW: The page is quite pretty now isn't it? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste section, when 9.2 is what I want. So I thought, no biggie, I'll just manually change 10.1 to 9.2 in the command once I've got it in a shell. Tried that...multiple times, but it always searches the site(s), says its unable to do its thing and quits out. So what happened to the easy in Easy URPMI? ;-) Thanks. PS Well, I just tried the PLF non-free and free, and those worked by changing the 10.1 to 9.2, but the others still won't work. :-( Go to the sites mentioned in easyurpmi in any browser and go up a directory. Choose 9.2 and use edit the command you get in easyurpmi accordingly. e.g. easy urpmi gives urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://mandrake.lcpe.uni-sofia.bg/plf/free/10.1 with synthesis.hdlist.cz a visit to this site gives the 9.2 command as: urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://mandrake.lcpe.uni-sofia.bg/plf/free/9.2/i586/ with ../synthesis.hdlist.cz (the synthesis hdlists are in the 9.2 directory, not the i586 directory) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI help
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? Hmm, I thought that I did - maybe I got in a hurry and missed it (multiple times - shaking head at self). I'll go try it again. I just tried it and it works. BTW: The page is quite pretty now isn't it? derek Yes, it is! Big improvement, definitely easier on the old orbs. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi help needed
Finally I made my CD II for ML 9.0 ok, but I tried urmi.update -a didn't work to update, to make story short. I need my all 3 CD's shown on software update, what is the command for it? Thanks in advance. Can Baytan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi help needed
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 12:30 pm, Can Baytan wrote: Finally I made my CD II for ML 9.0 ok, but I tried urmi.update -a didn't work to update, to make story short. I need my all 3 CD's shown on software update, what is the command for it? Thanks in advance. Can Baytan. To get all your CDs configured as software sources at once the command is urpmi.addmedia --distrib Distro_9.0 removable:///mnt/cdrom derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi help
I trust the files on the CD's I would just like to be able to install software from the net since its more convienent then walking over to the machine and inserting the proper CD. Ok I have some sources I want to add but I don't understand the hdlist part. I can't find the hdlist on any of the sites I want to add. What does relative path of the hdlist mean exactly? For example I want to add this source ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/ RPMS/ so what would the path of the hdlist be? Thanks. On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 10:50 PM, bascule wrote: i'm assuming that you have set up a source for the same version as is on the cd i.e. the original distro 8.1. in that case i think that urpmi must be going for hte 'easiest' route to files, i don't recall this being explicitly mentioned but it makes sense, assuming that you have correctly set up your other source then you can remove the cd sources and urpmi should use the net, is it that you don't trust the files on the cds? bascule On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 3:43 am, you wrote: Alright I know how to add media to it but how do I tell it where to get the stuff from? It always goes for the CD and never the net. Do I have to remove the CD sources for it to go to the net? 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] Urpmi help
Can anyone point me to a site showing me how to fully use urpmi? If not can anyone tell me how to get it to download stuff from the web instead of from the CD's? Also does anyone know of any http sites I can enter as sources? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi help
you need to add a source to the list of sources that urpmi uses, have you read the man pages for urpmi, urpmi.addmedia and urpmi.update? use the list of download sites from www.linux-mandrake.com to find a source that is convenient for you and do similar to the following (do this as root, you can add yourself to the urpmi group to avoid this-i think, though that may just be necessary to actually install using urpmi) #urpmi.addmedia somename for your source ftp://host/path/to/../Mandrake/ with ./base/hdlist.cz this should work, the argument after 'with' is the relative path of the file 'hdlist.cz from the ftp path specified earlier, you can also use an http url and you can also add user:password@ options as necessary as you would in a url window in a browser i.e. ftp://me:mypass@host/path/to/ etc. you can use either current 8.1 mirrors or cooker mirrors to download from, you could set up a source for each but then when you run urpmi you will always install the latest version of any package which may not be what you want, the mandrake software manager front end promises to let you choose what sourcess to look in but i've never tried that, this help? bascule On Wednesday 14 Nov 2001 8:48 pm, you wrote: Can anyone point me to a site showing me how to fully use urpmi? If not can anyone tell me how to get it to download stuff from the web instead of from the CD's? Also does anyone know of any http sites I can enter as sources? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi help
whoops. small mistake, the directory you specify is the ../RPMS directory, and the relative path to hdlist.cz would usually be ../base/hdlist.cz sorry! bascule #urpmi.addmedia somename for your source ftp://host/path/to/../Mandrake/ with ./base/hdlist.cz this should work, the argument after 'with' is the relative path of the file 'hdlist.cz from the ftp path specified earlier, you can also use an http url and you can also add user:password@ options as necessary as you would in a url window in a browser i.e. ftp://me:mypass@host/path/to/ etc. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Urpmi help
Alright I know how to add media to it but how do I tell it where to get the stuff from? It always goes for the CD and never the net. Do I have to remove the CD sources for it to go to the net? On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 06:52 PM, bascule wrote: you need to add a source to the list of sources that urpmi uses, have you read the man pages for urpmi, urpmi.addmedia and urpmi.update? use the list of download sites from www.linux-mandrake.com to find a source that is convenient for you and do similar to the following (do this as root, you can add yourself to the urpmi group to avoid this-i think, though that may just be necessary to actually install using urpmi) #urpmi.addmedia somename for your source ftp://host/path/to/../Mandrake/ with ./base/hdlist.cz this should work, the argument after 'with' is the relative path of the file 'hdlist.cz from the ftp path specified earlier, you can also use an http url and you can also add user:password@ options as necessary as you would in a url window in a browser i.e. ftp://me:mypass@host/path/to/ etc. you can use either current 8.1 mirrors or cooker mirrors to download from, you could set up a source for each but then when you run urpmi you will always install the latest version of any package which may not be what you want, the mandrake software manager front end promises to let you choose what sourcess to look in but i've never tried that, this help? bascule On Wednesday 14 Nov 2001 8:48 pm, you wrote: Can anyone point me to a site showing me how to fully use urpmi? If not can anyone tell me how to get it to download stuff from the web instead of from the CD's? Also does anyone know of any http sites I can enter as sources? Thanks. 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] Urpmi help
i'm assuming that you have set up a source for the same version as is on the cd i.e. the original distro 8.1. in that case i think that urpmi must be going for hte 'easiest' route to files, i don't recall this being explicitly mentioned but it makes sense, assuming that you have correctly set up your other source then you can remove the cd sources and urpmi should use the net, is it that you don't trust the files on the cds? bascule On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 3:43 am, you wrote: Alright I know how to add media to it but how do I tell it where to get the stuff from? It always goes for the CD and never the net. Do I have to remove the CD sources for it to go to the net? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
