Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more
On Saturday 28 Jun 2003 7:37 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did urpmi checkinstall - it reported two dependencies, I said yes and it failed saying some files were missing and that I might want to update my urpmi database. So I said 'urpmi.update local' tried urpmi checkinstall again and get the same message. I must be missing something here - besides the files, which are: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm Where do I go from here? thanks Curt Your local CD contents never change so there is no point updating 'local' Online sources however do change. So you need to run urpmi.update -a occasionally derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI.... once more, again.. Charlie
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi... once more
Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did urpmi checkinstall - it reported two dependencies, I said yes and it failed saying some files were missing and that I might want to update my urpmi database. So I said 'urpmi.update local' tried urpmi checkinstall again and get the same message. I must be missing something here - besides the files, which are: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm Where do I go from here? thanks Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more
quoting Curt Tresenriter; Saturday 28 June 2003 12:37 pm: Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did urpmi checkinstall - it reported two dependencies, I said yes and it failed saying some files were missing and that I might want to update my urpmi database. So I said 'urpmi.update local' tried urpmi checkinstall again and get the same message. I must be missing something here - besides the files, which are: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm Where do I go from here? thanks Curt Have you added a contrib software source? That's where those files come from I do believe. If you don't have contrib listed yet just use the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon easy urpmi page to pick one. Then use the; urpmi checkinstall command again to install it. If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there after they're built and save some dependency grief. Just a suggestion. Regards; Charlie -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 14:03:58 up 10 days, 19:19, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.16, 0.10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more
At 02:08 PM 6/28/03 -0600, you wrote: quoting Curt Tresenriter; Saturday 28 June 2003 12:37 pm: Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did urpmi checkinstall - it reported two dependencies, I said yes and it failed saying some files were missing and that I might want to update my urpmi database. So I said 'urpmi.update local' tried urpmi checkinstall again and get the same message. I must be missing something here - besides the files, which are: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm Where do I go from here? thanks Curt Have you added a contrib software source? That's where those files come from I do believe. If you don't have contrib listed yet just use the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon easy urpmi page to pick one. Then use the; urpmi checkinstall command again to install it. If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there after they're built and save some dependency grief. Just a suggestion. Regards; Charlie HI Charlie, Yes I did add contrib to my sources before trying to get the program. Thanks for the build directory tip. Curt -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 14:03:58 up 10 days, 19:19, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.16, 0.10 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
