Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 8:07 pm, Jason Williams wrote: > Last question. > > Is there a way to get a package description of the available > packages through urpmi? > I swear I was able to do so, but dont recall how to do it now. :/ > In 9.1, using the gui, there's a check-box for 'maximum information

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-18 Thread Jason Williams
At 12:17 PM 11/18/2003 -0800, you wrote: urpmi urpmc and then use it to find what's available. (Only in 9.2 att but the src rpm does build on 9.1) Ok...grabbed urpmc. I currently dont have any samba or LDAP installed. However, in playing with urpmi, I see there are quite a few packages available

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 12:07, Jason Williams wrote: > Last question. > > Is there a way to get a package description of the available packages > through urpmi? > I swear I was able to do so, but dont recall how to do it now. :/ urpmi urpmc and then use it to find what's available. (Only in 9.2 a

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-18 Thread Jason Williams
Last question. Is there a way to get a package description of the available packages through urpmi? I swear I was able to do so, but dont recall how to do it now. :/ On a side note, anyone have any thoughts on whether 9.1 or 9.2 is better suited for production right now? Jason At 08:37 AM 11/

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:27 pm, Vox wrote: > On September 1993 plus 3725 days Jason Williams wrote: > > Is there a way to list the packages that are available to > > download? > > "urpmq --list" will give you a list of all available > packages, without versions. "urpmq --fuzzy samba" wil

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread Eric Huff
You can also check out http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi on the twiki. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:27, Vox wrote: > On September 1993 plus 3725 days Jason Williams wrote: > > > Evening everyone. > > > > I just installed Mandrake 9.2 via FTP onto one of our servers to test > > out. We are looking for a replacement OS for our servers. One thing I > > wanted to learn is so

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:06, Jason Williams wrote: > Evening everyone. > > I just installed Mandrake 9.2 via FTP onto one of our servers to test out. > We are looking for a replacement OS for our servers. One thing I wanted to > learn is some of the Mandrake specific tools, specifically urpmi an

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Vox wrote: > On September 1993 plus 3725 days Jason Williams wrote: > > > Secondly, is there a way with urpmi to see what versions of the > > software I have? I know I can with rpm -qa |grep . Can you do > > this with urpmi? > > urpmq -r will give you the release and vers

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3725 days Jason Williams wrote: > Evening everyone. > > I just installed Mandrake 9.2 via FTP onto one of our servers to test > out. We are looking for a replacement OS for our servers. One thing I > wanted to learn is some of the Mandrake specific tools, specifically > urpm