quoting Curt Tresenriter; Sunday 29 June 2003 08:25 am: <whack> > > Hi Charlie, > > Yes I did add a source for contrib before issuing the command. > Thanks for the tip about the build dir. I'll do that. > Curt
Sorry about that Curt, busy weekend. It seems the message did get through, but the ol' sympa shuffle was happening again. The Mandrake lists I subscribe to were all missing until this morning in other words. So; since you have added a contrib repository for urpmi to use, and you're still having trouble, it would seem that you either have: 1.) a broken checkinstall built on the system and you have to urpme checkinstall (to remove it) or, 2.) you actually need to rebuild the database. In a terminal as root (su - ) updatedb and strike the enter key. I don't know why you'd need to, it should be happening at 4:00 AM by schedule. Finally, some of the mirrors have been slightly "wonky" for a few months but not continually and not with any consistency. You may have found one that has a package shown that either; isn't really there, has incorrect permissions, has an incorrect version number, or "Other." That last means who the hell knows, but have you actually browsed to the mirror and *looked* to see if what you are trying to install is there? That seems not to be the problem since you said the files are actually in the /var/cache.... directory. Have you tried just (as root in an xterm) cd to that directory and then use rpm -ivh *.rpm to install them? Worth a shot maybe. It's a drastic step, you may just be able to run rpmdrake (type that in the root term you're using, it's the graphical installer that's embedded in Mandrake Control Centre but can be run alone) and search manually in the "All Files Alphabetically" category for them then install them from there. But if urpmi is choking I wouldn't expect that to work either. I'm CC:'ing this to you privately just in case the list server has another migraine. ;-) Good luck. C. -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 10:31:06 up 12 days, 15:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.04 The IBM purchase of ROLM gives new meaning to the term "twisted pair". -- Howard Anderson, "Yankee Group"
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