Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:50:09 +0300 Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > A very useful page. It should be on the newbie signup page in 50 point bold... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 16:12:48 up 15 days, 21:53, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
Curt Tresenriter wrote: It's http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php That was the one.A very useful page. Sir Robin -- "A strategy is still being formulated." Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:56, you wrote: > Rosario Balboa wrote: > > I ghot the same problem, but in Add a source there's relative path to > > synthesis/hdlist, what is this?Could you give me a couple nice URL with > > their synthesis/hdlist whatever this is? > > Somebody posted a link to an excellent page with a utility that > calculates the commands you need to add sources for just about anything > (including Texstar and PLF) - you just have to choose your mirror, then > paste the result code into a terminal. Unfortunately the bookmark is on > my office computer ... > > Sir Robin Was it this one? http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Hope so, Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:56:39 +0300 Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Unfortunately the bookmark is on my office computer ... http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 12:11:56 up 15 days, 17:53, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
It's http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:56, Robin Turner wrote: > Rosario Balboa wrote: > > >> > > I ghot the same problem, but in Add a source there's relative path to > > synthesis/hdlist, what is this?Could you give me a couple nice URL with > > their synthesis/hdlist whatever this is? > > > > Somebody posted a link to an excellent page with a utility that > calculates the commands you need to add sources for just about anything > (including Texstar and PLF) - you just have to choose your mirror, then > paste the result code into a terminal. Unfortunately the bookmark is on > my office computer ... > > Sir Robin -- Registered Linux User #299730 Registered Machine #204611 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
Rosario Balboa wrote: I ghot the same problem, but in Add a source there's relative path to synthesis/hdlist, what is this?Could you give me a couple nice URL with their synthesis/hdlist whatever this is? Somebody posted a link to an excellent page with a utility that calculates the commands you need to add sources for just about anything (including Texstar and PLF) - you just have to choose your mirror, then paste the result code into a terminal. Unfortunately the bookmark is on my office computer ... Sir Robin -- "A strategy is still being formulated." Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for update should be on the server. I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? You need to update the "sources" - so in the Mandrake Control Center, go to "Software Management" => "Software Sources Manager" => "Update" - and you can update the sources; that way, when you actually try to update the system, you're getting the proper listing. You should do this every so often as the update lists change... I ghot the same problem, but in Add a source there's relative path to synthesis/hdlist, what is this?Could you give me a couple nice URL with their synthesis/hdlist whatever this is? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list of > software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but > during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't be > found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for update should > be on the server. > > I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the > server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. > > Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? You need to update the "sources" - so in the Mandrake Control Center, go to "Software Management" => "Software Sources Manager" => "Update" - and you can update the sources; that way, when you actually try to update the system, you're getting the proper listing. You should do this every so often as the update lists change... -- Thu Jul 10 22:35:00 EST 2003 22:35:00 up 4 days, 7 min, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.10, 0.09 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * The instruments of science do not in themselves discover truth. And there are searchings that are not concluded by the coincidence of a pointer and a mark. -- Fred Saberhagen, "The Berserker Wars" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
Once the sources are sorted out the first thing you should update is urpmi itself. From the command line urpmi urpmi or use the Software install GUI. derek On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 11:12 am, Michael Adams wrote: > I also recomend throwing disk 1 in the CD-ROM before you urpmi anything. > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:27:57 +0100 > > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When you upgraded to 9.1 did you delete your old 9.0 update source? > > That would explain why you had trouble with libraries. > > > > You can remove your old source with the source manager GUI in Mandrake > > control Centre, and you can select a new 9.1 source from > > http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php > > Add a source for contrib and plf while you are there:- > > > > derek > > > > On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 8:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a > > > list of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few > > > ones but during the update I got messages that some libraries are > > > needed and can't be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the > > > stuff needed for update should be on the server. > > > > > > I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the > > > server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. > > > > > > Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
I also recomend throwing disk 1 in the CD-ROM before you urpmi anything. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:27:57 +0100 Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you upgraded to 9.1 did you delete your old 9.0 update source? > That would explain why you had trouble with libraries. > > You can remove your old source with the source manager GUI in Mandrake control > Centre, and you can select a new 9.1 source from > http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php > Add a source for contrib and plf while you are there:- > > derek > > > On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 8:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list > > of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but > > during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't > > be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for > > update should be on the server. > > > > I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the > > server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. > > > > Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? > -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
When you upgraded to 9.1 did you delete your old 9.0 update source? That would explain why you had trouble with libraries. You can remove your old source with the source manager GUI in Mandrake control Centre, and you can select a new 9.1 source from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Add a source for contrib and plf while you are there:- derek On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 8:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list > of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but > during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't > be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for > update should be on the server. > > I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the > server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. > > Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:43:08 +0200 (MEST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? When you upgraded to 9.1, did you make sure to install all of the same packages? (I'm assuming you did an upgrade as opposed to a clean install). Try urpmi --updates --auto-select if this doesn't work, make sure that all of your package sources are pointing to 9.1 sources and not 9.0. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 03:47:38 up 15 days, 9:28, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com