Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Saturday 10 January 2004 01:40, Eric Huff wrote: problem - only it's too late to start that tonight. are you across the country or something hehe its only 3 pm here She's al the way across the pond... Right :-) UK, and it was around 10pm. I'm not a night-bird, and I don't think clearly at that time, in fact I try not to start anything that needs intelligence after 9pm g For that matter I'm not over-bright in the mornings, either :-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Friday 09 January 2004 21:57, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:38:29 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmi awesfx Please insert the medium named Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... cp: reading `/mnt/cdrw/Mandrake/RPMS/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm means it could not read from the CD, usually. Try putting another CD in there and see if you can read from it. If not, may be some hardware or file system probs; if another CD works fine, ie. you can read the contents, could be the Mandrake CD is bad. error: read failed: Success (25) unable to install package Preparing... ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# So - is it installed or not? I guess so, but from those messages, it could mean anything try 'rpm -q awesfx' to see if it *did* install, which is doubtful if it could not read from the CD. Also, it only shows the 'Preparing' slider, not the 'Installing' slider. Ture - it just seems an odd thing to do. How can it prepare if it didn't actually download a package? Anyway, it's academic. I'll sort it out one way or another sometime today. The problems I'm having do not relate to just one cd. It has been single packages that can't be read, not the whole cd. It's not a major problem as the package can always be found elsewhere. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:14:35 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 21:57, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:38:29 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmi awesfx Please insert the medium named Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... cp: reading `/mnt/cdrw/Mandrake/RPMS/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm means it could not read from the CD, usually. Try putting another CD in there and see if you can read from it. If not, may be some hardware or file system probs; if another CD works fine, ie. you can read the contents, could be the Mandrake CD is bad. error: read failed: Success (25) unable to install package Preparing... ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# So - is it installed or not? I guess so, but from those messages, it could mean anything try 'rpm -q awesfx' to see if it *did* install, which is doubtful if it could not read from the CD. Also, it only shows the 'Preparing' slider, not the 'Installing' slider. Ture - it just seems an odd thing to do. How can it prepare if it didn't actually download a package? Anyway, it's academic. I'll sort it out one way or another sometime today. The problems I'm having do not relate to just one cd. It has been single packages that can't be read, not the whole cd. It's not a major problem as the package can always be found elsewhere. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? yeah it probably has bad packages... -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 22:29:54 up 1:12, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.01 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:30:12 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:14:35 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 21:57, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:38:29 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmi awesfx Please insert the medium named Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... cp: reading `/mnt/cdrw/Mandrake/RPMS/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm means it could not read from the CD, usually. Try putting another CD in there and see if you can read from it. If not, may be some hardware or file system probs; if another CD works fine, ie. you can read the contents, could be the Mandrake CD is bad. error: read failed: Success (25) unable to install package Preparing... ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# So - is it installed or not? I guess so, but from those messages, it could mean anything try 'rpm -q awesfx' to see if it *did* install, which is doubtful if it could not read from the CD. Also, it only shows the 'Preparing' slider, not the 'Installing' slider. Ture - it just seems an odd thing to do. How can it prepare if it didn't actually download a package? Anyway, it's academic. I'll sort it out one way or another sometime today. The problems I'm having do not relate to just one cd. It has been single packages that can't be read, not the whole cd. It's not a major problem as the package can always be found elsewhere. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? yeah it probably has bad packages... test sorry -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 22:33:16 up 1:15, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:40:53 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 22:15, Dick Gevers wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:51:37 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] urpmi question: No, it's not. So what the heck was it preparing? Never mind - I'll leave it for tonight, then I'll go back to the gui. At least I can understand the messages there. You could try copying the file from the CD to a home directory; I had one CD in a previous version that always had read problems. Moreover you could check the file`s integrity with rpm -K awe* If it still fails you might have a corrupted rpm database (which I experienced several times in MD 9.1), but this can easily be fixed by: rpm --rebuilddb [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmi awesfx Please insert the medium named Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## 1:awesfx ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# rpm -q awesfx awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# So - maybe the database needing updating, or maybe it tried to read the cdrom before it was fully spun up? Either way, it is installed from cd now. Thanks for the help, though. Anne yayyy! -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 22:39:51 up 1:22, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:42:37 -0700 jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: disable cd 1 in the media manager and have urpmi find it elsewhere.. Good workaround, d00d! Nice thinkin'! -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.-- Howard Zinn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:56, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 21:42, jpearl24 wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:38, Anne Wilson wrote: I usually use the gui, but I decided to try Josenild's plan for playing .kar files. This is what I saw: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmi awesfx Please insert the medium named Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... cp: reading `/mnt/cdrw/Mandrake/RPMS/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm error: read failed: Success (25) unable to install package Preparing... ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# So - is it installed or not? I guess so, but from those messages, it could mean anything Anne is the cd scratched?? disable cd 1 in the media manager and have urpmi find it elsewhere.. you can check to see if its installed by going to remove packages and then locate the rpm if its listed then its installed.. i say its not if it says unable to install package. You're quite right, it's not. The cds look perfectly OK, and I'm very careful with them, but I occasionally get one that doesn't want to install. I just rpmfind for the package I need, download it to a tmp directory, then install from there. No problem - only it's too late to start that tonight. Anne are you across the country or something hehe its only 3 pm here -- jason pearl ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 14:58:38 up 1 day, 18:32, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:58, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:42:37 -0700 jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: disable cd 1 in the media manager and have urpmi find it elsewhere.. Good workaround, d00d! Nice thinkin'! hehe thanks i had to do it myself for a cups driver... -- jason pearl ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 15:01:04 up 1 day, 18:34, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:51:37 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] urpmi question: No, it's not. So what the heck was it preparing? Never mind - I'll leave it for tonight, then I'll go back to the gui. At least I can understand the messages there. You could try copying the file from the CD to a home directory; I had one CD in a previous version that always had read problems. Moreover you could check the file`s integrity with rpm -K awe* If it still fails you might have a corrupted rpm database (which I experienced several times in MD 9.1), but this can easily be fixed by: rpm --rebuilddb HTH Regards, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE//ygQwC/zk+cxEdMRAqWkAJ9kO3IPIiw508uqcd90KlhZ4rj0QACguiiG p01ayT5Z9/5K/bUQcR1MME8= =Ma4p -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
problem - only it's too late to start that tonight. are you across the country or something hehe its only 3 pm here She's al the way across the pond... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
Try urpmi -q packagename.rpm where packagename is the name of the rpm your looking for From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/17 Fri PM 11:07:26 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] urpmi question How can i search the names of rpms, and show the summary and description? If i urpmf, it appears to search more. For example: urpmf man page says the --summary switch searches summaries, but the urpmf help says: --summary - print tag summary: summary. which i thought meant it would print the sumary. What i'd like is a command line version of what rpmdrake does: once i get it open, it very nicely shows only packages with nmh in the name (for example) and i can quickly see the description and summary. It also, on the same page, shows the current version i have installed, if any. Is there a line (or lines) for urpm* that i can use? Thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi question
Try urpmi -q packagename.rpm where packagename is the name of the rpm your looking for Cool. I got some help on expert, and will post a twiki when i get the chance. thanks for the tip. I have been forgetting about rmp and only using urpm too often... eric From: Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/17 Fri PM 11:07:26 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] urpmi question How can i search the names of rpms, and show the summary and description? If i urpmf, it appears to search more. For example: urpmf man page says the --summary switch searches summaries, but the urpmf help says: --summary - print tag summary: summary. which i thought meant it would print the sumary. What i'd like is a command line version of what rpmdrake does: once i get it open, it very nicely shows only packages with nmh in the name (for example) and i can quickly see the description and summary. It also, on the same page, shows the current version i have installed, if any. Is there a line (or lines) for urpm* that i can use? -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
