Re: [newbie] Urpmi update problem.

2005-04-03 Thread Simon
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:52, Mr. Geek wrote:


 Simon; You have to uninstall libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf and
 possibly ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf before you can install the
 newer version of both packages using;

 urpme ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf

 which should also remove the old libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf in
 the process. It will probably ask you if that's OK. What I don't know is
 if anything else will need removal at the same time, but again it should
 ask.

 Once that's done repeat the first command to install the newer versions.

That's great, all done. Thanks for your help.
Simon.

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Re: [newbie] Urpmi update problem.

2005-04-03 Thread Mr. Geek
Simon wrote:
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:52, Mr. Geek wrote:

Simon; You have to uninstall libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf and
possibly ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf before you can install the
newer version of both packages using;
urpme ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf
which should also remove the old libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf in
the process. It will probably ask you if that's OK. What I don't know is
if anything else will need removal at the same time, but again it should
ask.
Once that's done repeat the first command to install the newer versions.

That's great, all done. Thanks for your help.
Simon.
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[newbie] urpmi adding resources

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed them, 
but failed to add Thacs RPMs.  I'm wondering if I have used the command 
incorrectly.

urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ 
with ../base/hdlist.cz

Am I supposed to name the media maybe?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
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Re: [newbie] urpmi adding resources

2005-03-20 Thread Mr. Geek
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed them, 
but failed to add Thacs RPMs.  I'm wondering if I have used the command 
incorrectly.

urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ 
with ../base/hdlist.cz

Am I supposed to name the media maybe?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Rosemary
Rosemary; You're command was a bit off. This one below should work fine. 
Remember that there's a space between 'RPMS/' and 'with'.

urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/
with hdlist.cz
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Re: [newbie] urpmi adding resources

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 01:31, Mr. Geek wrote:
 Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
  I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed
  them, but failed to add Thacs RPMs.  I'm wondering if I have used the
  command incorrectly.
 
  urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/
  with ../base/hdlist.cz
 
  Am I supposed to name the media maybe?
 
  Any help appreciated.
 
  Thanks
  Rosemary

 Rosemary; You're command was a bit off. This one below should work fine.
 Remember that there's a space between 'RPMS/' and 'with'.

 urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/
 with hdlist.cz


Ah - thank you.  That makes sense. I'll do that.
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[newbie] Urpmi TWiki out of date

2005-03-19 Thread hackhound
Greetings,
  I was just looking at the Urpmi TWiki at
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi and It says to
copy the base/ and Mandrake/ directories to a foler you create on the
hard drive.  My CDs (10.1) do not have these two folders, which leads
me to believe the TWiki is out of date.  My question is, which folders
should I copy over?

Thanks,
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Re: [newbie] urpmi can't locate URPM.pm

2005-03-16 Thread Graham
Steven Carrie wrote:
Hi everyone, this is my first cry for help on the newbie list.
I was tinkering with mandrake 10.1 and decided to upgrade to the cooker 
source. 
Can't locate URPM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm line 16. BEGIN 
failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm 
line 16. Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22. BEGIN 
failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22.


The system has also become unstable, not connecting network and trying to 
open MCC fails.

 

I had a similar problem and fixed it by removing the perl packages from 
cooker and re-installing the perl packages from an 'update' source.
worked for me. HTH.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-15 Thread Smiley
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:06:29 -0800
Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 You can find information and directions on
 how to set it up on the site: http://www.eslrahc.com/
 
 He also offers RPMs for stuff like gaim, and other popular programs
 that don't get updated very frequently on the official mirrors.

Currently in Charles mirror there's Firefox 1.0, but
another great unofficial urmpi repository is http://norlug.org/?op=rpms
in which you can find 1.0.1
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Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-15 Thread Julie Sloan
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 01:06 am, Amy wrote:
 On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:47:00 -0500, Julie Sloan

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new
  -1.0.1. 


 I'm not sure how you can make the source you're trying to use work,
 but I can direct you to a better one that I know a good number of
 people here on the list use. If you're running 10.1, probably the
 easiest way to get an up to date version of Firefox would be to use
 Charles Edward's mirror. You can find information and directions on
 how to set it up on the site: http://www.eslrahc.com/


thank you Amy I do have Charles set up as a source but I am running Mdk10.0

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Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-15 Thread Julie Sloan
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:49 am, Smiley wrote:
 On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:06:29 -0800

 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  You can find information and directions on
  how to set it up on the site: http://www.eslrahc.com/
 
  He also offers RPMs for stuff like gaim, and other popular programs
  that don't get updated very frequently on the official mirrors.

 Currently in Charles mirror there's Firefox 1.0, but
 another great unofficial urmpi repository is http://norlug.org/?op=rpms
 in which you can find 1.0.1


thank you, I'm adding norlug now  :)

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[newbie] urpmi can't locate URPM.pm

2005-03-15 Thread Steven Carrie
Hi everyone, this is my first cry for help on the newbie list.

I was tinkering with mandrake 10.1 and decided to upgrade to the cooker 
source.  So I updated my urpmi sources and began to install.  Shortly into 
the process the power failed because my PSU has gone dodgy. Now when I try 
anything with urpmi, I get the following error.


Can't locate URPM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm line 16. BEGIN 
failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm 
line 16. Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22. BEGIN 
failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22.



The system has also become unstable, not connecting network and trying to 
open MCC fails.

In /usr/lib/perl5 are directories for 5.8.5 and 5.8.6, the file urpm.pm 
does not exist as far as I can see.

So the big question!  Can I fix this or will I have to make a fresh 
install?  Any help you can offer is much appreciated.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi can't locate URPM.pm

2005-03-15 Thread Mr. Geek
Steven Carrie wrote:
Hi everyone, this is my first cry for help on the newbie list.
I was tinkering with mandrake 10.1 and decided to upgrade to the cooker 
source.  So I updated my urpmi sources and began to install.  Shortly into 
the process the power failed because my PSU has gone dodgy. Now when I try 
anything with urpmi, I get the following error.

The system has also become unstable, not connecting network and trying to 
open MCC fails.

In /usr/lib/perl5 are directories for 5.8.5 and 5.8.6, the file urpm.pm 
does not exist as far as I can see.

So the big question!  Can I fix this or will I have to make a fresh 
install?  Any help you can offer is much appreciated.

Steven Carrie
Steven; Been there, done that. You're looking at a fresh install from my 
experience. It took me about 2 hours to find out that I could have 
re-installed faster then fixing the problem.

Your problem occurred because urpmi tried to upgrade Perl, which is 
required for urpmi as well as MCC and a whack of other apps.

It will be a lot less painful and faster to re-install. Just make sure 
that you don't let the installer touch your /home partition. It's OK if 
it wants to create a mount point for it, but that should be all.

Hope that helps. I can sympathize with your situation since I went 
through the same thing. Good luck.

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[newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-14 Thread Julie Sloan

when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1.  
I've been to the website and looked at the 1.0.1 rpm, which gives its 
location as 
http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/
but when I tried to add this (up to the first slash before Mozilla) as an 
urpmi medium I got five minutes of 0% of 0 at speed 0.  What did I do 
wrong?  Do I need to d/l the -0.8 and then upgrade to the -1.0.1 or d/l the 
-1.0-1 rpm or is there another way?

ty

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Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-14 Thread Amy
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:47:00 -0500, Julie Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1.
 I've been to the website and looked at the 1.0.1 rpm, which gives its
 location as
 http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/
 but when I tried to add this (up to the first slash before Mozilla) as an
 urpmi medium I got five minutes of 0% of 0 at speed 0.  What did I do
 wrong?  Do I need to d/l the -0.8 and then upgrade to the -1.0.1 or d/l the
 -1.0-1 rpm or is there another way?
 
 ty
 
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I'm not sure how you can make the source you're trying to use work,
but I can direct you to a better one that I know a good number of
people here on the list use. If you're running 10.1, probably the
easiest way to get an up to date version of Firefox would be to use
Charles Edward's mirror. You can find information and directions on
how to set it up on the site: http://www.eslrahc.com/

He also offers RPMs for stuff like gaim, and other popular programs
that don't get updated very frequently on the official mirrors.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-13 Thread RickSisler
joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 RickSisler wrote:
 did you try what bascule mentions:
 try the full path to urpmi
 # /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels
 

 I did, and like magic, urpmi worked.

 The question I have, is why is /usr/sbin no longer in my $PATH, and/or
 how should I edit my bashrc so that it is.


 Here is what i get from echo $PATH:
 echo $PATH
 /usr/lib/distcc/bin:/home/fcrozat/GNUstep/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools
 :/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 :/usr/games:/home/fcrozat/bin
Joe,
why do you have fcrozat settings I wonder ? I wouldn't think a rpm
package would bring that in ? is your username fcrozat ?
or do you have a user named fcrozat ?
did you type echo $PATH from a root login ? which you did before but
I am just confirming it .. something sounds strange here ..
GNUstep is for LSB compliance, I think, can someone conform this ?

What version of mdk are you using ? 10.1 ?
(I mis-spoke myself about /etc/bashrc, mine is customized. And I
typed from my user's PATH, which is different than root's, sorry)

On my other system, which is not custom but a fresh install,
root's .bashrc is also setting the $PATH
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

Then
/etc/profile seems to add /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/games

A look in rc.sysinit (which is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) for the
global path statements, verifing these lines:
rc.sysinit: # Set the path
rc.sysinit: PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

you have these in your posted path, *except* /usr/sbin/
Verify that it is missing in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file, if so,
add it, reboot and you should be back on track.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
joe wrote:
RickSisler wrote:
joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 

bascule wrote:
  

have you checked your path?
echo $PATH
try the full path to urpmi
/usr/sbin/urpmi glabels

[EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $path
  
Joe,
the variable name is declared with Capital letters, so type::
# echo $PATH
I am working on setting up my path again. Wondering what happened to
it.
  
if the above doesn't work, check your /etc/bashrc ..
 


did you try what bascule mentions:
 

try the full path to urpmi
# /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels
I did, and like magic, urpmi worked.
The question I have, is why is /usr/sbin no longer in my $PATH, and/or 
how should I edit my bashrc so that it is.

Here is what i get from echo $PATH:
echo $PATH
/usr/lib/distcc/bin:/home/fcrozat/GNUstep/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/fcrozat/bin 


The directoryies /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin are not normaly in 
a user's path. They are in root's path when you log in as root, or when 
you su - to root. Normaly, when you do su instead of su -, you 
keep the same path. But in Mandrake 10.1, when ever root opens a shell, 
the path is set to fixed path by /root/.bashrc. So you may want to check 
the .bashrc file in /root to be sure it is correct.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found PROBLEM SOLVED

2005-03-13 Thread joe
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
The directoryies /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin are not normaly 
in a user's path. They are in root's path when you log in as root, or 
when you su - to root. Normaly, when you do su instead of su -, 
you keep the same path. But in Mandrake 10.1, when ever root opens a 
shell, the path is set to fixed path by /root/.bashrc. So you may want 
to check the .bashrc file in /root to be sure it is correct.

Mikkel 
Problem solved!
Never used su - before, but when I did,  echo $PATH reported:
/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
URPMI works (again). \
Thanks to all for the help.
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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-12 Thread joe
bascule wrote:
have you checked your path?
echo $PATH
try the full path to urpmi
/usr/sbin/urpmi glabels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $path
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/urpmi
urpmi version 4.5
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Mandrakesoft.
This is free software and may be redistributed under the terms of the 
GNU GPL.

usage:
 --help - print this help message.
I am working on setting up my path again. Wondering what happened to it.
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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-12 Thread RickSisler
joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 bascule wrote:

 have you checked your path?
 echo $PATH
 try the full path to urpmi
 /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $path
Joe,
the variable name is declared with Capital letters, so type::

# echo $PATH
/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:
/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_05/bin:/home/ricks/bin:/home/ricks/scripts

 I am working on setting up my path again. Wondering what happened to
 it.
if the above doesn't work, check your /etc/bashrc ..

did you try what bascule mentions:
 try the full path to urpmi
 # /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels

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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-12 Thread joe
RickSisler wrote:
joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 

bascule wrote:
   

have you checked your path?
echo $PATH
try the full path to urpmi
/usr/sbin/urpmi glabels
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $path
   

Joe,
the variable name is declared with Capital letters, so type::
# echo $PATH
I am working on setting up my path again. Wondering what happened to
it.
   

if the above doesn't work, check your /etc/bashrc ..
 


did you try what bascule mentions:
 

try the full path to urpmi
# /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels
I did, and like magic, urpmi worked.
The question I have, is why is /usr/sbin no longer in my $PATH, and/or 
how should I edit my bashrc so that it is.

Here is what i get from echo $PATH:
echo $PATH
/usr/lib/distcc/bin:/home/fcrozat/GNUstep/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/fcrozat/bin
I had a look at /etc/bashrc, it's not really well documented (at least i 
had trouble following it). Here it is if anyone is interested:

# /etc/bashrc
# System wide functions and aliases
# Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile
# by default, we want this to get set.
# Even for non-interactive, non-login shells.
if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then
   umask 002
else
   umask 022
fi
# are we an interactive shell?
if [ $PS1 ]; then
   case $TERM in
   xterm*)
   PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne \033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ${PWD}\007'
   ;;
   *)
   ;;
   esac
   [ $PS1 = \\s-\\v\\\$  ]  PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\\$ 
  
   if [ -z $loginsh ]; then # We're not a login shell
   for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
   if [ -x $i ]; then
   . $i
   fi
   done
   fi
fi

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Re: [newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-11 Thread Margot
Tahir Abdullah wrote:
Thanks Aron
When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error 
comes
urpmi database locked
WHat is this problem.

This usually happens after failed or interrupted download/installation. 
To cure it, as root in terminal:

rm /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK
and
rm /var/lib/urpmi/.RPMLOCK
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Re: [newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-11 Thread SnapafunFrank
Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:56 pm, Tahir Abdullah wrote:
 

Thanks Aron
When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error
comes urpmi database locked
WHat is this problem.
   

a reboot will fix this (inelegent  and there is probably a better way)
 

The second problem is whenever I send mail from my  hotmail. It goes twice
How can I fix it?
   

best solution is to not use hotmail
but  leaving the reply to field blank usually works
 

I appreciate any guidance.
Thanks
Tahir
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urpmi will be locked if it is in use ~ possibly still trying to contact 
one of your media sites which is not responding.

Google ( I prefer www.vivisimo.com ) for urpmi.unlock and install it ~ 
you may already have it ~ try 'urpmi.unlock' at the root prompt.

If not you may need to manually download it and install it using rpm -Uvh .
Unless you are doing a kernel rebuild there is no need to reboot your 
system ~ you will learn more by fixing such problems by working through 
them and you'll find that there are many here that will always assist, 
especially is you give details to your problems.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-11 Thread Adrian Coman
maybe you su from one user ... try su - , urpmi is not available for 
normal users.

joe wrote:
Anyone have an idea why urpmi stopped working? Mandrake 10.1 official. 
Been using it sucsessfully for quite a while now.  urpmi shows up in  
rpmdrake, I apparently sucessfully (re)-installed it. Yet i get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels
bash: urpmi: command not found

Googling has thus far been unenlightening.
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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-11 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:47:16 -0700
joe disseminated the following:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels
 bash: urpmi: command not found

Did you try 'urpmi urpmi'?


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[newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-10 Thread joe
Anyone have an idea why urpmi stopped working? Mandrake 10.1 official. 
Been using it sucsessfully for quite a while now.  urpmi shows up in  
rpmdrake, I apparently sucessfully (re)-installed it. Yet i get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels
bash: urpmi: command not found

Googling has thus far been unenlightening.
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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-10 Thread bascule
have you checked your path?
echo $PATH
try the full path to urpmi
/usr/sbin/urpmi glabels

bascule

On Friday 11 Mar 2005 03:47, joe wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels
 bash: urpmi: command not found

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Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-10 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Friday 11 March 2005 12:02 pm, bascule wrote:
 have you checked your path?
 echo $PATH
 try the full path to urpmi
 /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels

 bascule

 On Friday 11 Mar 2005 03:47, joe wrote:
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels
  bash: urpmi: command not found

Also try locate it by hand:
locate urpmi
You might need to run the updatedb command first.
HTH,
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[newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-10 Thread Tahir Abdullah
Thanks Aron
When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes
urpmi database locked
WHat is this problem.
The second problem is whenever I send mail from my  hotmail. It goes twice 
How can I fix it?
I appreciate any guidance.
Thanks
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[newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-10 Thread Tahir Abdullah
Thanks Aron
When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes
urpmi database locked
WHat is this problem.
The second problem is whenever I send mail from my  hotmail. It goes twice 
How can I fix it?
I appreciate any guidance.
Thanks
Tahir

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Re: [newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:56 pm, Tahir Abdullah wrote:
 Thanks Aron
 When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error
 comes urpmi database locked
 WHat is this problem.
a reboot will fix this (inelegent  and there is probably a better way)
 The second problem is whenever I send mail from my  hotmail. It goes twice
 How can I fix it?
best solution is to not use hotmail
but  leaving the reply to field blank usually works
 I appreciate any guidance.
 Thanks
 Tahir

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Re: [newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-06 Thread SnapafunFrank
Graham Watkins wrote:
Hi Y'all,
Recently, while attempting to 'urpmi' a new program, I got the 
following  message at the command line:

unable to access hdlist file of eslrahc, medium ignored
I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow.  What 
do I have to do to get it put right?

cheers,
If I were to see this , this is what I would attempt first:
1. # urpmi.removemedia eslrahc
2. I would then browse to Charles site www.eslrahc.com and click on your 
actual distribution version. At the top of the page is the suggested 
link for adding eslrahc back onto you urpmi . but read on first.

Though mine is Mandrake 10 and would look like this :
urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ with hdlist.cz
I would add the switches ' c ' and ' f ' like so :
urpmi.addmedia -c -f eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ with hdlist.cz
I have found that when I have any problems with any particular media, 
this way seems to always put things right.

Using the two switches as above as become standard practice for me when 
I update my own onboard downloaded rpm directory because it doesn't have 
a hlist to start with.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-06 Thread Graham Watkins
JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:35:28 +
Graham Watkins disseminated the following:

I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow.  What 
do I have to do to get it put right?

Well, this may not be the 'best' sol'n, but try removing and adding the source
again. I had to do this a little while ago because apparently something had
changed on his end.
Did it.  It appears to have done the trick.  Thanks.
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[newbie] urpmi --fuzzy downloads without asking!

2005-03-06 Thread JR
when I do urpmi --fuzzy package, it sometimes downloads the package anyway, 
without giving me a choice. Am I misunderstanding this switch? I expected to 
be asked regardless how many similar packages there were (even if there was 
only one)

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Re: [newbie] urpmi --fuzzy downloads without asking!

2005-03-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 06 March 2005 3:25 pm, JR wrote:
 when I do urpmi --fuzzy package, it sometimes downloads the package
 anyway, without giving me a choice. Am I misunderstanding this switch? I
 expected to be asked regardless how many similar packages there were (even
 if there was only one)

If there is only one match, it will try to d/l it for you. I usually just 
press ctl-c to kill it, but you can run --test to not allow it to upload 
anything.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi --fuzzy downloads without asking!

2005-03-06 Thread Margot
JR wrote:
when I do urpmi --fuzzy package, it sometimes downloads the package anyway, 
without giving me a choice. Am I misunderstanding this switch? I expected to 
be asked regardless how many similar packages there were (even if there was 
only one)

Jarlath

urpmi --fuzzy package *does* automatically download the package if 
there is only one matching. If you only want to see what is available, 
but not download, you should use

urpmq --fuzzy package
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Re: [newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-05 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:35:28 +
Graham Watkins disseminated the following:

 I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow.  What 
 do I have to do to get it put right?

Well, this may not be the 'best' sol'n, but try removing and adding the source
again. I had to do this a little while ago because apparently something had
changed on his end.

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[newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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. :-(



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Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Dan Gordon
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

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Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Derek Jennings
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?
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Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Paul
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
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Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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

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[newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-04 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all,
Recently, while attempting to 'urpmi' a new program, I got the following 
 message at the command line:

unable to access hdlist file of eslrahc, medium ignored
I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow.  What 
do I have to do to get it put right?

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[newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Julie Sloan

Hi all,
is there a way I can save a copy of my urpmi updates to disk, so that if I 
need to reinstall / I can also reinstall the updates without having to 
download for hours?

thanks
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Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread N. B. Day
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:15 -0500, Julie Sloan wrote:
 Hi all,
 is there a way I can save a copy of my urpmi updates to disk, so that if I 
 need to reinstall / I can also reinstall the updates without having to 
 download for hours?
 
 thanks
 Julie

Use the --noclean switch.  The rpms will be in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.  

I maintain several systems that are in rural areas where the telephone
lines are literally nailed to the fenceposts and updating on-line would
be expensive.  I update my Mandrake machine here at the lab with
urpmi --update --auto-select --noclean --wget and then make a cd with
the updates that I can carry up the bayou.  Once there, I copy to the
hard disk, define a source like urpmi.addmedia rpms101
file:///root/rpms101 and urpmi.update rpms101 (if I've added to it
since defining it) and then just urpmi --auto-select does the update.

Works really well; urpmi is better than apt-get or anything else I've
used for this situation.  

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Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Julie Sloan
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:35 pm, N. B. Day wrote:
 On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:15 -0500, Julie Sloan wrote:
  Hi all,
  is there a way I can save a copy of my urpmi updates to disk, so that
  if I need to reinstall / I can also reinstall the updates without
  having to download for hours?
 
  thanks
  Julie

 Use the --noclean switch.  The rpms will be in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.

 I maintain several systems that are in rural areas where the telephone
 lines are literally nailed to the fenceposts and updating on-line would
 be expensive.  I update my Mandrake machine here at the lab with
 urpmi --update --auto-select --noclean --wget and then make a cd with
 the updates that I can carry up the bayou.  Once there, I copy to the
 hard disk, define a source like urpmi.addmedia rpms101
 file:///root/rpms101 and urpmi.update rpms101 (if I've added to it
 since defining it) and then just urpmi --auto-select does the update.

 Works really well; urpmi is better than apt-get or anything else I've
 used for this situation.

 HTH


Thank you so very much.  Also for the speed of your reply.

Julie

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Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:35 pm, N. B. Day wrote:
 On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:15 -0500, Julie Sloan wrote:
  Hi all,
  is there a way I can save a copy of my urpmi updates to disk, so that if
  I need to reinstall / I can also reinstall the updates without having to
  download for hours?
 
  thanks
  Julie

 Use the --noclean switch.  The rpms will be in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.

 I maintain several systems that are in rural areas where the telephone
 lines are literally nailed to the fenceposts and updating on-line would
 be expensive.  I update my Mandrake machine here at the lab with
 urpmi --update --auto-select --noclean --wget and then make a cd with
 the updates that I can carry up the bayou.  Once there, I copy to the
 hard disk, define a source like urpmi.addmedia rpms101
 file:///root/rpms101 and urpmi.update rpms101 (if I've added to it
 since defining it) and then just urpmi --auto-select does the update.

 Works really well; urpmi is better than apt-get or anything else I've
 used for this situation.
hey Boudeaux why no updates 
Gator ate them and the tech too
(some IT jobs are more hazardious than others)

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Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thursday 24 February 2005 06:56 am, Aron Smith wrote:
  Use the --noclean switch.  The rpms will be in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.

Oh boy, I wish I knew it before :(

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Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Julie Sloan
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:02 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
 On Thursday 24 February 2005 06:56 am, Aron Smith wrote:
   Use the --noclean switch.  The rpms will be in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.

 Oh boy, I wish I knew it before :(


Me too.  Only 952Mb to go at 56Kbps

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[newbie] URPMI Issue??

2005-02-08 Thread Hugh Crissman
When I try to install something via urpmi I get the follwoing error?

error: failed to stat /home/data_on_wxps1: Input/output error

Now, /home/data_... is an old local directory that I had a rpm dir. mirrored 
to. Since then I have changed the dir where I rsync rpms to. I also updated 
all the media but it is still looking for the old dir? I can't figure out 
where or why it is still looking for this directory. urpmi still works, it is 
just really slow? urpmi -clean did not fix this issue?

Thanks

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Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-06 Thread Stuart R. Fuller
On Friday 04 February 2005 11:22 am, Paul wrote:
 I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system.

 Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its
 not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it.

 I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no effect.

When posting questions such as this, posting the exact commands entered and 
the exact messages returned is extrememly helpful, and helps eliminate a lot 
of guessing on the part of well-meaning people.


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[newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system.

Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its
not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it.

I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no effect.



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[newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it.
Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only)

S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1
missing/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir
S.5T c /etc/hotplug/blacklist
.M.. c /etc/init.d/hotplug
S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western/fonts.cache-1


'missing' is obvious, but what are the others (e.g. S.5T)?




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Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote:
 I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system.

 Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its
 not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it.

 I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no effect.
did you run (as root) updatedb ?


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Re: [newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
Paul wrote:
After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it.
Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only)
S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1
missing/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir
S.5T c /etc/hotplug/blacklist
.M.. c /etc/init.d/hotplug
S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western/fonts.cache-1
'missing' is obvious, but what are the others (e.g. S.5T)?
I don't remember where I copied this from but it goes:
Verifying installed files vs. rpm:
rpm -v package_name
When verifying a package, RPM produces output only  if there is a 
verification failure. When a file fails verification, the format of the 
output is a bit cryptic, but it packs all the information you need into 
one line per file. Here is the format:

SM5DLUGT c file
  

Where:
   *S is the file size.
   *M is the file's mode.
   *5 is the MD5 checksum of the file.
   *D is the file's major and minor numbers.
   *L is the file's symbolic link contents.
   *U is owner of the file.
   *G is the file's group.
   *T is the modification time of the file.
   *c appears only if the file is a configuration file. This is 
handy for quickly identifying config files, as they are very likely to 
change, and therefore, very unlikely to verify successfully.
   *file is the file that failed verification. The complete path 
is listed to make it easy to find.

It's unlikely that every file attribute will fail to verify, so each of 
the eight attribute flags will only appear if there is a problem. 
Otherwise, a . will be printed in that flag's place.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote:
 On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote:
  I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system.
 
  Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its
  not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it.
 
  I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no effect.
 did you run (as root) updatedb ?
 

yes, still no joy.



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Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 04 February 2005 04:47 pm, Paul wrote:
 On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote:
  On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote:
   I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system.
  
   Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me
   its not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it.
  
   I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no effect.
 
  did you run (as root) updatedb ?

 yes, still no joy.

Paul, do you use KDE? If so, use the GUI manager for urpmi, and *if* you can 
find the package in question listed, in either remove or install, look at the 
file listing in the right plane. You might be able to use that list, to go 
see if the files are actually there, and delete all of them, then start over 
trying to install it.

Good luck.

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Re: [newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:35, Avi Schwartz wrote:
 Paul wrote:
 
 After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it.
 Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only)
 
 S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1
 missing/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir
 S.5T c /etc/hotplug/blacklist
 .M.. c /etc/init.d/hotplug
 S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western/fonts.cache-1
 
 
 'missing' is obvious, but what are the others (e.g. S.5T)?
 
 I don't remember where I copied this from but it goes:
 
 Verifying installed files vs. rpm:
 
 rpm -v package_name
 
  When verifying a package, RPM produces output only  if there is a 
 verification failure. When a file fails verification, the format of the 
 output is a bit cryptic, but it packs all the information you need into 
 one line per file. Here is the format:
 
 SM5DLUGT c file

 
 Where:
 
 *S is the file size.
 *M is the file's mode.
 *5 is the MD5 checksum of the file.
 *D is the file's major and minor numbers.
 *L is the file's symbolic link contents.
 *U is owner of the file.
 *G is the file's group.
 *T is the modification time of the file.
 *c appears only if the file is a configuration file. This is 
 handy for quickly identifying config files, as they are very likely to 
 change, and therefore, very unlikely to verify successfully.
 *file is the file that failed verification. The complete path 
 is listed to make it easy to find.
 
 It's unlikely that every file attribute will fail to verify, so each of 
 the eight attribute flags will only appear if there is a problem. 
 Otherwise, a . will be printed in that flag's place.
 

many thanks, just what I was after.



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Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
 On Friday 04 February 2005 04:47 pm, Paul wrote:
  On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote:
   On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote:
I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system.
   
Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me
its not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it.
   
I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no effect.
  
   did you run (as root) updatedb ?
 
  yes, still no joy.
 
 Paul, do you use KDE? If so, use the GUI manager for urpmi, and *if* you can 
 find the package in question listed, in either remove or install, look at the 
 file listing in the right plane. You might be able to use that list, to go 
 see if the files are actually there, and delete all of them, then start over 
 trying to install it.
 
 Good luck.

Thanks, Ronald, using MCC gimp2 shows up in neither add nor remove
software searches, even though I can see other programs from the same
source (a 10.1 DVD)- which means that that source is recognised.

Really confused by this.





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[newbie] urpmi agony still

2005-02-01 Thread Paul
Hi everyone,

The urpmi source called  
ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS
is still not working. Can someone tell me how I get rid of that
resource? I am trying to get gdk-pixbuf2 installed for the GTK2-port of
Sylpheed, but wolfenbuettel won't hand it to me:

ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS/libgdk-pixbuf2-0.22.0-2.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: wget failed: exited with 1 or signal 0

This is getting boring...

Thanks for clous!
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Re: [newbie] urpmi agony still

2005-02-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 16:55, Paul wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 The urpmi source called
 ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrakelinux/official
/updates/10.0/RPMS is still not working. Can someone tell me how I
 get rid of that resource? 

Can't you just remove it in System--Configuration--Packaging--
Software media Manager ?

If you don't use a GUI, then (as root) urpmi.removemedia  [name].

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Re: [newbie] urpmi agony still

2005-02-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 1 2005 07:55 am, Paul wrote:

In mcc use the software manager  (beside updates) to remove update_source, 
then the next time you run updates you'll need to choose a new mirror.

 Hi everyone,

 The urpmi source called
 ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrakelinux/official/updates/1
0.0/RPMS is still not working. Can someone tell me how I get rid of that
 resource? I am trying to get gdk-pixbuf2 installed for the GTK2-port of
 Sylpheed, but wolfenbuettel won't hand it to me:

 ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrakelinux/official/updates/1
0.0/RPMS/libgdk-pixbuf2-0.22.0-2.2.100mdk.i586.rpm ...retrieving failed:
 wget failed: exited with 1 or signal 0

 This is getting boring...

 Thanks for clous!
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Re: [newbie] urpmi agony still

2005-02-01 Thread Paul
Kaj wrote:
If you don't use a GUI, then (as root) urpmi.removemedia  [name]

Thanks for the pointer, I had already tried this. I just got lost on the
[name] part...

On Tue February 1 2005 07:55 am, Paul wrote:

In mcc use the software manager  (beside updates) to remove
update_source,  then the next time you run updates you'll need to
choose a new mirror.

That worked! Thank you all, for the help.

Paul


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Re: [newbie] urpmi locked

2005-01-28 Thread et
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 12:07 pm, Paul wrote:
 On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:27, Dave Needham wrote:
  -- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is
  locked.

 su

 ps -A

 kill   (replace ?s with number of urpmi or whatever)

 is the long way, can't think of the short way at the moment
in console, type top you get a page of whatever is eating the most of your 
mem or proc power (in top, just type a capital M or P (no need for 'enter') 
to change the view from what eats the most CPU cycles to what is eating the 
most memory. once you decide what program you want to kill, hit the 'k' and 
then type in the proccess number and then hit enter. hit the space bar to 
refresh the readings and if the program you wanted to kill does not 
disappear, you may have to try a k then a 9 then your process number, as kill 
-15 is the default in top.
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[newbie] urpmi locked

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Needham

-- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is 
locked.


Many Thanks To All Who Reply
Best Wishes
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Re: [newbie] urpmi locked

2005-01-26 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:27, Dave Needham wrote:
 -- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is 
 locked.
 

su

ps -A

kill   (replace ?s with number of urpmi or whatever)

is the long way, can't think of the short way at the moment



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Re: [newbie] urpmi locked

2005-01-26 Thread Anne Wilson
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On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 17:07, Paul wrote:
 On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:27, Dave Needham wrote:
  -- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is
  locked.

 su

 ps -A

 kill   (replace ?s with number of urpmi or whatever)

 is the long way, can't think of the short way at the moment

sigh  That's why we created the TWiki - it's a FAQ.

killall urpmi urpmi.update urpme rpm urpmi.addmedia
rm -f /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK /var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK

You'll find it in http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi (which 
should be required reading, it has so much useful info)

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[newbie] urpmi

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Needham
just out of curiosity when you set up urpmi for updates do i have to check 
once a wekk or does it do it itself automaticali.ive set it up and works 100% 
but what next please.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi

2005-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:45, Dave Needham wrote:
 just out of curiosity when you set up urpmi for updates do i have to check
 once a wekk or does it do it itself automaticali.ive set it up and works
 100% but what next please.

 dave

If you are using 10.1 every time you open the Mandrake Update GUI it will 
refresh the urpmi database. Earlier releases did not auto update.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-24 Thread bascule
do you have the latest version of mandrake,
previous ones had 
cdroot/
/Mandrake/
/base/
/RPMS/

or just 
cdroot/
/Mandrake/
/RPMS(N)/

the latest ones seem to have
cdroot/
/media/
/main/
/media_info

or cdroot/
/media/
/contrib/
/media_info

i can't say for certain that the new cds are laid out as above, im just going 
by the directory structure under the i586 tree but i'm guessing you've got 
older instructions but the newest distro

bascule

On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 11:45 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
 3. If I don't have a /base or /Mandrake directory, can I configure urpmi to
 work with the CD copies on my hard drive?

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Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-24 Thread Anne Wilson
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On Monday 24 Jan 2005 15:23, bascule wrote:
 do you have the latest version of mandrake,
 previous ones had
 cdroot/
   /Mandrake/
   /base/
   /RPMS/

 or just
 cdroot/
   /Mandrake/
   /RPMS(N)/

 the latest ones seem to have
 cdroot/
   /media/
   /main/
   /media_info

 or cdroot/
   /media/
   /contrib/
   /media_info

 i can't say for certain that the new cds are laid out as above, im just
 going by the directory structure under the i586 tree but i'm guessing
 you've got older instructions but the newest distro

 bascule

It sounds as though the TWiki page needs updating.  Fancy having a go at it, 
Bascule?

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Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 10:23 AM 1/24/2005, bascule said something remarkably like (but somehow 
subtly different from):

do you have the latest version of mandrake,
previous ones had
cdroot/
/Mandrake/
/base/
/RPMS/
or just
cdroot/
/Mandrake/
/RPMS(N)/
the latest ones seem to have
cdroot/
/media/
/main/
/media_info
or cdroot/
/media/
/contrib/
/media_info
i can't say for certain that the new cds are laid out as above, im just going
by the directory structure under the i586 tree but i'm guessing you've got
older instructions but the newest distro
bascule
I have
cdroot/
 /media/
  /main/
  /media_info/
There are other directories than just main, of course, and a few files in 
the root as well. This is from the 10.1 Official Power Pack that I 
downloaded as a Mandrake Club member.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Graham Watkins
Margot wrote:

Nooo! I think we'd better transfer any further 'goat' discussion to 
the OT list...


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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Paul
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 00:02, Julie Sloan wrote:
 Paul wrote:
  Julie Sloan wrote:
 Tom Brinkman wrote:
 
 
 In the 
 re-install, make a separate /home dir this time ;)  Also, IME, 
 one real big /stor dir is better than many.
 
 BTW, when you re-install I recommend ReiserFS.  And make a 
 separate /boot partition (~50mb's, ext3).  Ratio of '/' to 
 '/home' will depend on how much total space you have, but IME, 
 8gig for '/' and 12gig for /home is plenty ... specially if you 
 set aside storage space.  For small Linux 'only' drives (13gig), 
 I believe putting everything one big 'ol '/' partition, with a 
 suitable /swap partition is best use.
 
 
 When you refer to '/' , is that where /mnt is now, and is that where I'd 
 access other partitions from, once I have them?
 
  
  Windows doesn't like being moved - you'll need to backup your data and
  re-install. 
 
 
 sigh  baby steps...   one at a time...
 
 
  The '/' Tom mentions refers (here) to the partitioning - when you are
  asked about mount points when you install he suggests (at least) two
  partitions '/' and '/home'. Under / you will probably see other
  directories, including /mnt.
 
 
 and /usr and /bin  or am I still confused?

You can, if you wish, have separate partitions for /usr  /bin, or they
can both (and others) come under /

I have just two partitions for linux /home and /. I have a second,
smaller disk with windows on - this also has two partitions (windows 
data).

 
 
  If you format the 80G into a FAT32 partition, both linux and XP could
  read and write to it.
 
 
 What about a ReiserFS?  Or is that something else, not a type of 
 partition as I thought?
 
 
ResierFS is a file system, not a partition - like the windows NTFS,
FAT32. You can choose which file-system your linux partitions use
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
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On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 15:52, Paul wrote:

 ResierFS is a file system, not a partition - like the windows NTFS,
 FAT32. You can choose which file-system your linux partitions use
 ReiserFS, Ext3, etc

To some extent the choice of file system is a personal preference, *except* - 
do keep /boot, if it is a separate partition, as etx2 or ext3 (which is ext2 
with a journal added).

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[newbie] URPMI

2005-01-23 Thread id1davewp
NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE


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Re: [newbie] URPMI

2005-01-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 23 January 2005 15:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE

Here's is one, for a start :

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/

You didn't mention your Mandrake version, so just scroll down to the 
one you have.

On the other hand, why not choose the easy way :

http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

or

http://www.linuxfordummies.org/addmedia/

Then you can select a mirror closer to you, although the Spanish one 
I mentioned is pretty fast updated.

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Re: [newbie] URPMI

2005-01-23 Thread Dan Gordon
On January 23, 2005 09:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE

Ok don't yell at us please :-)
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

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Re: [newbie] URPMI

2005-01-23 Thread Johan
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:13:56 +0100
Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Sunday 23 January 2005 15:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE
 


Be root and create and run this script..works for me..MDK 10.0 official..call 
it any name you like..BE sure to be on line for it to work..

#!/bin/bash

ISCOZA= 
ESLRACH= 
CONTACTEL= 
CONTRIB_SK= 
UNININET= 
SUNET= 
PLF= 

#**
echo; echoadding iscoza ; echo

su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update iscoza 
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/10.0/RPMS/ with 
../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
ISCOZA=failed
else
ISCOZA=success
fi
#**
echo; echoadding eslrach ; echo

su -c urpmi.addmedia --update eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ with 
hdlist.cz

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
ESLRACH=failed
else
ESLRACH=success
fi
#**
echo; echoadding contactel ; echo

su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update contactel 
ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ with 
synthesis.hdlist.cz

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
CONTACTEL=failed
else
CONTACTEL=success
fi
#**

echo; echoadding contrib-sk ; echo

su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update contrib-sk 
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/10.0/contrib/i586
 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/synthesis.hdlist2.cz

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
CONTRIB_SK=failed
else
CONTRIB_SK=success
fi
***
echo; echoadding uninet ; echo

su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update uninet 
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/stable/updates/10.0/RPMS/ with 
../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
UNINET=failed
else
UNINET=success
fi
#**
echo; echoadding sunet ; echo

su - -c urpmi.addmedia --update sunet 
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS/
 with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
SUNET=failed
else
SUNET=success
fi
#**
echo; echoadding plf ; echo

su - -c urpmi.addmedia plf 
ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/10.0 with synthesis.hdlist.cz

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
PLF=failed
else
PLF=success
fi
#**
echo ; echo
echo   ISCOZA =  $ISCOZA
echo   ESLRACH=  $ESLRACH
echo   CONTACTEL  =  $CONTACTEL
echo   CONTRIB_SK =  $CONTRIB_SK
echo   UNINET =  $UNINET
echo   SUNET  =  $SUNET
echo   PLF=  $PLF
echo ; echo
#**
exit 0


When the above is successful then run this after creation..

#!/bin/bash

ESLRAHC= 
CONTRIB= 
JPACKAGE= 
MAIN= 
UPDATES= 
PLF= 

#**

echo; echoupdating synthesis  eslrahc ; echo

su - -c urpmi.update eslrahc
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
ESLRAHC=failed
else
ESLRAHC=success
fi
#**
echo; echoupdating synthesis  contrib ; echo

su - -c urpmi.update contrib

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
CONTRIB=failed
else
CONTRIB=success
fi
#**
echo; echoupdating synthesis  jpackage ; echo

su - -c urpmi.update jpackage

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
JPACKAGE=failed
else
JPACKAGE=success
fi
#**
echo; echoupdating synthesis  main ; echo

su - -c urpmi.update main

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
MAIN=failed
else
MAIN=success
fi
#**
echo; echoupdating synthesis  updates ; echo

su - -c urpmi.update updates

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
UPDATES=failed
else
UPDATES=success
fi
#**
echo; echoupdating synthesis  plf ; echo

su - -c urpmi.update plf

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
PLF=failed
else
PLF=success
fi
#**
echo ; echo

echo   ESLRAHC =   $ESLRAHC
echo   CONTRIB =   $CONTRIB
echo   JPACKAGE=   $JPACKAGE
echo   MAIN=   $MAIN
echo   UPDATES =   $UPDATES
echo   PLF =   $PLF

echo ; echo
#**
exit 0

-

When the above is successful then run..this..be prepared for some long time on 
line if first time...

urpmi --auto-select  --noclean --wget -a

goodluck
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 22 January 2005 04:38 pm, Julie Sloan wrote:
 Tom Brinkman wrote:
  On Saturday 22 January 2005 10:32 am, Julie Sloan wrote:
 I copied /home to a CD, will reinstall 10.0, and hopefully
 during the reinstall will set up a storage partition or two.
 I'm dualbooting WinXP and Mandrake; have the Win on the
 original harddrive and Mandrake on its own, separate, hd.  I
 can see into windoze from Mandrake but cannot write to it.
 
  Actually you seem to have alot'a snap for a newbie.

 I hope I've learned a little bit in six months??  But a lot of
 what you say from here on looks like alphabet soup on the first
 pass  :)  So I'll read it again, slower...

If most of us admitted it, we had to, or thought it wise to 
re-install linux about a dozen times in our first six months ;)

  In the
  re-install, make a separate /home dir this time ;)  Also,
  IME, one real big /stor dir is better than many.

 Why one real big /stor dir? 

   User needs and preference. I have 4 stor partitions. I often 
encounter running out of space on one, when there's room on 
others. Use of dirs (folders) to separate movies, sound, 
pictures, essential backups, and misc would'a been more efficient 
on one humongous size drive.

 Wouldn't it be better to have new 
 downloads (from unknown sources; I don't mean rpms) go to a
 separate partition to isolate them just in case, and to have
 certain types of large files, for instance MP3s, default to
 their own space?

 Choice of partitions and file systems is a matter of 
preference and user experience.  Basically for partitions, 

/   this is the root directory (not to be confused with 'root' 
user).  It's the top level mount point, that all other 
directories come under. Even if they are on separate partitions. 
Everything on Linux is a file, partitions are put on mount 
points. To illustrate, type 'l /*' in a console and scroll up.  
Even better, type 'tree  /less'  (you'll probly need to 'urpmi 
tree' first)

/home   it's a good idea to have this on it's own partition, 
mostly for reasons you've already discovered.  It can be a bad 
idea when a small HDD (13gig) is used for Linux tho. IE, 
inefficient use of limited disk space. When I first began with 
linux it was on a 256mb HDD. I used one big 'ol / and a swap 
file.  / is the only absolutely mandatory partition

/swap   almost imperative, altho a swap file can be used instead 
(as above).  General advice is to make it the same size as 
installed ram, if that is at least 512mb.  For smaller amounts of 
ram, double the size of the /swap partition, eg ram=128, make 
swap at least 256. So for ram=256, /swap should be 512. MOF, IMO, 
512 is about the minimum. It's what I have now, an next install 
I'm gonna double it. For laptops that suspend to ram, /swap 
should always be at least 30% more than installed ram, if not 
double.

/boot   while this preference is outdated, IMO it's still a good 
idea to put /boot on a separate partition. Use of ext3 is an 
added precaution when other partitions use a journalled 
filesystem.  IIRC, it's still mandatory for XFS.

Further separate partitioning is mostly for production servers 
and for their unique security concerns. When attempted by newbies 
it can cause files that are needed to boot, to not be available 
during init.  Sort'a fatal ;

File systems; Journalled is the way to go. Your choice but 
I've never had any problems with ReiserFS. Till now ... 2.6.10 
kernels, and maybe newer ones have some issues with reiser, 
particularly on sata HDD's.  I expect it to be cleared up tho. If 
this concerns you, use ext3.  It's nothin but the old reliable 
ext2 Linux has used forever, with journalling capability tacked 
on.  It's sort'a slow and clumsy tho.

  As to 'see' into Win$ux, that why I left it at
  'complicated'. M$ ntfs FS's (and there are several versions),
  can be read by Linux, but write support is (intentionally by
  M$) dangerous and not supported. I'm not even sure if a
  tarball stored on ntfs can be transferred to Linux.

 Yes it can - is how I got a modem driver when linux wasn't
 recognizing my conexant last summer.  D/L'ed it into WinXP 
 then cp'd it into Mandrake.

 BTW, when you re-install I recommend ReiserFS.  And make a
  separate /boot partition (~50mb's, ext3).  Ratio of '/' to
  '/home' will depend on how much total space you have, but
  IME, 8gig for '/' and 12gig for /home is plenty ... specially
  if you set aside storage space.  For small Linux 'only'
  drives (13gig), I believe putting everything one big 'ol '/'
  partition, with a suitable /swap partition is best use.

 Thanks for the suggestions.  I have 200G total on two drives,
 but 80 of that has Win$ux spread all over it.  If I make a,
 say, 20G partition on the 120G drive, (where my crippled
 Mandrake 10.0 is now) then move (?) the 4G of WinXP OS into it,
 could I reformat that 80G into storage space?  The thought of
 it is pretty daunting; I am very new to this and know 

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 16:32, Julie Sloan wrote:
 Stephen Kühn wrote:
  Julie Sloan lied:
 
 [sorry - anything further I'll post to the OT list]
 
  
  Down the mighty Mississip, into the Gulf, through the Panama Canal, head
  directly SSW and don't stop till you smack into Windang Island.
  
  Else, ship the goats to Knott County, KY and a mate of mine will git'em
  ready and ship'em over.
  
 
 
 Huh?   I could WALK 'em to Knott county from here.
 
 J

If you live THAT close to Knott County, then maybe we can arrange for
Ronald Hall to come and fix ya up. He lives down yonder towards the bad
side of the county border.

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[newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
I looked at the urpmi page in the TWiki, and saw that it should be possible 
to copy the install disks to my hard drive and make urpmi look there 
instead of asking for the CDs. But I cannot follow the directions as written.

1. The directions state that I should copy the /base and /Mandrake 
directories from CD1. But I do not see either of these directories on any 
of my CDs. I have the 6 CD set as a Mandrake club member.

2. I did copy, I think, the 6 CDs to my hard drive. I say I think because 
while the first one took a while to copy, the others went very quickly, 
which makes me think that something may not be right. I looked inside each 
directory, and saw that RPMs are listed as being there, but I don't see how 
a whole CD can be copied in like 10 seconds.

3. If I don't have a /base or /Mandrake directory, can I configure urpmi to 
work with the CD copies on my hard drive?

Thank you,
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Margot
Julie Sloan wrote:
BTW I've located my mailboxes - all with weird names but oh well, I can 
get the data out of them now - - but where is my KMail addresbook?  All 
I've found so far is recently used addresses, which is nicely more 
than I had a few hours ago but still not the entire mailing list, not to 
mention the individual information I had stashed on each card.

Julie,
I suggest you start new threads for each new problem you encounter - 
I can't help with Kmail addressbook as I've never used Kmail, and I 
don't even use KDE - but if you start a thread marked lost Kmail 
addressbook I'm sure that someone here will be able to help you 
find it.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
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On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 04:35, Julie Sloan wrote:
  There should be a text file with that info in your
  ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/addressbook or something like that I don't
  use kmail. Open it in a terminal and you should have your info.

 thank you Mike, but no, no addrbook in that directory, or any nearby.
 Found all my mail in ~/.Mail, and recently used addresses
 somewhere...?but no main addressbook.

The folder is called kabc and the file is probably std.vcf

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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Lanman
Anne Wilson wrote:
The folder is called kabc and the file is probably std.vcf
Anne
Julie; Margot asked me to drop in and lend a hand if possible. I've had 
a quick look at the thread in order to catch up. If I understand things 
clearly, you were trying to do a 10.0 update, but accidentally did an 
update using 10.1 sources and now several things are broken.

If you're trying to salvage your address book, then Anne is 100% right 
about the name of the folder and the file (I just finished migrating a 
corporate client (170 users) over to mozilla-thunderbird a few days 
ago). Before going any further, I strongly advise that you copy that 
std.vcf file to a floppy diskette or storage partition on your system.

If, in the meantime, you have managed to install rpmdrake, you should be 
able to call it from a terminal. I wasn't able to see if you have lost 
your desktop or not, and whether or not you still have other desktops 
installed.

In the meantime, you might want to seriously consider Stephen's advice 
since you'll never know for sure whether your system will be stable now 
or not, and if it starts acting up, you also won't know if it's due to 
this or something else, making any possible fixes very hard to implement.

If you have an extra hard drive which can be connected to this computer, 
or if there's a partition on this system which can be used for storage, 
try copying your important data there until the system is re-installed.

Don't forget to save your .Mail folder as well as your std.vcf file, 
documents and any other media or data you'd like to save. If you need 
help setting up a second hard drive on this PC, just holler back to the 
list or to me off-list. In that case, any relevant info concerning 
your hard drive(s), the partitions and their sizes and names (a.k.a. 
mount-points), would be very helpful.

As far as the urpmi sources are concerned, try starting with main, 
updates, plf and contrib sources, skipping the jpackage source for the 
time being.

Hope that helps. I'll be around all day if you need help and it looks 
like you and I are in the same timezone (Eastern), so that should make 
it a bit easier.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
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On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 12:41, Lanman wrote:

 Don't forget to save your .Mail folder as well as your std.vcf file,
 documents and any other media or data you'd like to save. If you need
 help setting up a second hard drive on this PC, just holler back to the
 list or to me off-list. In that case, any relevant info concerning
 your hard drive(s), the partitions and their sizes and names (a.k.a.
 mount-points), would be very helpful.

Just a small addition - if you have mail from an older release (and I think 
that includes 10.0) you may have both a Mail folder and a .Mail folder.  Mail 
used to be stored in Mail, but for some reason Mandrake's packagers decided 
to change that to .Mail.  If that's so and you have any mail since the 10.1 
debacle, you will probably need to save both of them.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Lanman
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 12:41, Lanman wrote:
Don't forget to save your .Mail folder as well as your std.vcf file,
documents and any other media or data you'd like to save. If you need
help setting up a second hard drive on this PC, just holler back to the
list or to me off-list. In that case, any relevant info concerning
your hard drive(s), the partitions and their sizes and names (a.k.a.
mount-points), would be very helpful.
Just a small addition - if you have mail from an older release (and I think 
that includes 10.0) you may have both a Mail folder and a .Mail folder.  Mail 
used to be stored in Mail, but for some reason Mandrake's packagers decided 
to change that to .Mail.  If that's so and you have any mail since the 10.1 
debacle, you will probably need to save both of them.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 21 January 2005 04:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote:
 What is your choice? (1-4) 4
 To satisfy dependencies, the following 556 packages are going
 to be installed (1088 MB):



 I am on dialup.  22Mb takes an hour and a half.  Do I need 1088
 additional Mb??

   It's not 1088 'additional' mb. MOF, it's not even 1088 mb's.   
1088 is the installed diskspace required, but since you're 
updating (replacing) packages, the the difference in disk space 
used is minimal.  Also, 1088 represents the uncompressed size of 
the packages. Since the rpm's are compressed, your d/l would be 
roughly 40% of 1088, or 400 to 450 mb's.

That's still way too much for dialup.  I suggest you, beg 
borrow, or steal some 10.1 CD's, or re-install 10.0, saving /home 
if you can.  If /home's not on a separate partition now, and you 
have enough diskspace on a storage partition, just copy your 
entire /home directory to that partition.  Then copy it back in 
after a re-install of 10.0, overwriting the install /home.  This 
probly isn't practically feasible if your storage area is any 
type of Windoze file system.  It's possible, but much more 
complicated.
 
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 15:38, Julie Sloan wrote:

when I run rpmdrake I get this:

generous snip
IF it were me, at this stage, I would backup what I could, and format
the HD and start fresh.

I came to the same conclusion after sleeping on it.  Thankfully K3b 
still works!

thanks,
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 04:35, Julie Sloan wrote:
There should be a text file with that info in your
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/addressbook or something like that I don't
use kmail. Open it in a terminal and you should have your info.
thank you Mike, but no, no addrbook in that directory, or any nearby.
Found all my mail in ~/.Mail, and recently used addresses
somewhere...?but no main addressbook.
The folder is called kabc and the file is probably std.vcf
Anne

Hi Anne,
 ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc
That's it; thank you!!!
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote:
Julie,
I suggest you start new threads for each new problem you encounter - I 
can't help with Kmail addressbook as I've never used Kmail, and I don't 
even use KDE - but if you start a thread marked lost Kmail addressbook 
I'm sure that someone here will be able to help you find it.


LOL it seems almost too late to do that now, but I will definitely keep 
this in mind in the future.

thanks Margot,
Julie

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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Lanman wrote:
Julie; Margot asked me to drop in and lend a hand if possible. I've had 
a quick look at the thread in order to catch up. If I understand things 
clearly, you were trying to do a 10.0 update, but accidentally did an 
update using 10.1 sources and now several things are broken.
Hi Lanman; yes, that's it in a nutshell.
If you're trying to salvage your address book, then Anne is 100% right 
got it, salvaged it  :)
In the meantime, you might want to seriously consider Stephen's advice 
Gonna start from scratch.  I've burned just about all of ~/ onto a CD 
and should probably wait a day before I reinstall, to see if I think of 
anything else I need to save, besides the mailboxes and addressbooks...

As far as the urpmi sources are concerned, try starting with main, 
updates, plf and contrib sources, skipping the jpackage source for the 
time being.
ok
Hope that helps. I'll be around all day if you need help and it looks 
like you and I are in the same timezone (Eastern), so that should make 
it a bit easier.
it does; thanks a lot.
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 12:41, Lanman wrote:
Don't forget to save your .Mail folder as well as your std.vcf file,
documents and any other media or data you'd like to save. If you need
help setting up a second hard drive on this PC, just holler back to the
list or to me off-list. In that case, any relevant info concerning
your hard drive(s), the partitions and their sizes and names (a.k.a.
mount-points), would be very helpful.
Just a small addition - if you have mail from an older release (and I think 
that includes 10.0) you may have both a Mail folder and a .Mail folder.  Mail 
used to be stored in Mail, but for some reason Mandrake's packagers decided 
to change that to .Mail.  If that's so and you have any mail since the 10.1 
debacle, you will probably need to save both of them.

Anne

No, since the debacle I've been using MozillaMail.  I have a little 
stored in XimianEvolution I'd like to back up also, and oops, guess I 
ought to be leaving messages on the server now...

thanks,
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Friday 21 January 2005 04:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote:
To satisfy dependencies, the following 556 packages are going
to be installed (1088 MB):
I am on dialup.  22Mb takes an hour and a half.  Do I need 1088
additional Mb??
   It's not 1088 'additional' mb. MOF, it's not even 1088 mb's.   
1088 is the installed diskspace required, but since you're 
updating (replacing) packages, the the difference in disk space 
used is minimal.  Also, 1088 represents the uncompressed size of 
the packages. Since the rpm's are compressed, your d/l would be 
roughly 40% of 1088, or 400 to 450 mb's.
Aha, okay. My patient partner sat by while I tied up the phone line for 
about 90Mb yesterday

That's still way too much for dialup.  
Yes it is.  :)
If /home's not on a separate partition now, and you 
have enough diskspace on a storage partition, just copy your 
entire /home directory to that partition.  Then copy it back in 
after a re-install of 10.0, overwriting the install /home.  This 
probly isn't practically feasible if your storage area is any 
type of Windoze file system.  It's possible, but much more 
complicated.
 
I copied /home to a CD, will reinstall 10.0, and hopefully during the 
reinstall will set up a storage partition or two.  I'm dualbooting WinXP 
and Mandrake; have the Win on the original harddrive and Mandrake on its 
own, separate, hd.  I can see into windoze from Mandrake but cannot 
write to it.

thanks,
Julie

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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Lanman
Julie Sloan wrote:
I came to the same conclusion after sleeping on it.  Thankfully K3b 
still works!

Ouch! You slept on your hard drive? Didn't that hurt? Grin!

thanks,
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
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On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:31, Julie Sloan wrote:consider Stephen's advice

 Gonna start from scratch.  I've burned just about all of ~/ onto a CD
 and should probably wait a day before I reinstall, to see if I think of
 anything else I need to save, besides the mailboxes and addressbooks...

I think you've made the right decision g

Anne
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
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On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:32, Julie Sloan wrote:

 I copied /home to a CD, will reinstall 10.0, and hopefully during the
 reinstall will set up a storage partition or two.  I'm dualbooting WinXP
 and Mandrake; have the Win on the original harddrive and Mandrake on its
 own, separate, hd.  I can see into windoze from Mandrake but cannot
 write to it.

Writing to an ntfs partition is still not 100% safe, so better not attempted.  
Instead, make a fat32 partition big enough to hold any data that you might 
want to share between apps.

Anne
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:31, Julie Sloan wrote:consider Stephen's advice
Gonna start from scratch.  I've burned just about all of ~/ onto a CD
and should probably wait a day before I reinstall, to see if I think of
anything else I need to save, besides the mailboxes and addressbooks...
I think you've made the right decision g
Anne

Well, this way I may tear out less of my hair   ;)
thanks,
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 06:35, Julie Sloan wrote:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
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  On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:31, Julie Sloan wrote:consider Stephen's advice
  
 Gonna start from scratch.  I've burned just about all of ~/ onto a CD
 and should probably wait a day before I reinstall, to see if I think of
 anything else I need to save, besides the mailboxes and addressbooks...
 
  
  I think you've made the right decision g
  
  Anne
 
 
 Well, this way I may tear out less of my hair   ;)
 
 
 thanks,
 Julie

Linux causes you to tear out hair? Are you sure you're not confusing
linux with men? Men causing you to tear your hair out I can fully
understand, but linux? Nah. Easier to control. Much more so than men.

Ask Margot.

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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Well, after sleeping on the harddrive I am confusing the two
;)

Stephen Kühn wrote:
Linux causes you to tear out hair? Are you sure you're not confusing
linux with men? Men causing you to tear your hair out I can fully
understand, but linux? Nah. Easier to control. Much more so than men.
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Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:38, Julie Sloan wrote:
 Well, after sleeping on the harddrive I am confusing the two
 ;)
 
 
 
 Stephen Kühn wrote:
 
  Linux causes you to tear out hair? Are you sure you're not confusing
  linux with men? Men causing you to tear your hair out I can fully
  understand, but linux? Nah. Easier to control. Much more so than men.
  
  Ask Margot.

Difference between a hard drive and a man:

* Hard drives retain data (memory) and only forget when you format them.
Men, on the other hand, do not retain data (memory) at their discretion
and whimsy, and will always remember things at the worst possible
moment.

* Hard drives do not talk back to you or argue

* Hard drives do not watch sports and drink beer.

* Hard drives turn on when you want them turned on. Men turn on at the
worst possible moments.

* Hard drives do not snore.

* Hard drives do not purchase expensive sports cars

* Hard drives do not chase younger women when they reach the middle of
their life spans

* Hard drives are easily maintained. Men require far too much
maintenance.

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