Re: [newbie] Download the rpm directly instead of urpmi

2004-12-08 Thread Duncan Anderson
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Thanks folks, I've just got wake up (4.00 am now), and ready to install the bunch of RPMs that I've downloaded last night. About the gftp.. I didn't know that it has comparison ability. It's cool. I think I'll use it. Have fun. I do that sort of thing all the time. We do

Re: [newbie] Download the rpm directly instead of urpmi

2004-12-08 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thursday 09 December 2004 03:48 am, John Layt wrote: > I keep a local mirror of all the Mandrake / Club / PLF / etc RPMs on my > USB2 drive, and have these defined as Local Sources in urpmi. While there > are fancy sync tools to automate the process, I just fire up gftp every > week or so and u

Re: [newbie] Download the rpm directly instead of urpmi

2004-12-08 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 00:24, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi folks, > Can I download the rpm directly from Mdk's update repository and then > install it manually instead of using urpmi? > > The reason is that I want to download the rpm through my colo server first > (it has better speed), and then download

Re: [newbie] Download the rpm directly instead of urpmi

2004-12-08 Thread bascule
no reason why not, use urpmi --test to check that you don't need to download dependencies as well, if so, download those, put all in a directory and then run 'urpmi namesofrpmshere', urpmi is usually better to use on an rpm than rpm itself since you will get more useful info regarding dependenci

Re: [newbie] Download the rpm directly instead of urpmi

2004-12-08 Thread Wojciech Podgórni
Użytkownik Fajar Priyanto napisał: Hi folks, Can I download the rpm directly from Mdk's update repository and then install it manually instead of using urpmi? The reason is that I want to download the rpm through my colo server first (it has better speed), and then download it to my notebook (th

Re: [newbie] Download the rpm directly instead of urpmi

2004-12-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, Can I download the rpm directly from Mdk's update repository and then install it manually instead of using urpmi? The reason is that I want to download the rpm through my colo server first (it has better speed), and then download it to my notebook (the speed shoul

Re: [newbie] Download the rpm directly instead of urpmi

2004-12-08 Thread Anders Lind
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:24:58 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > Can I download the rpm directly from Mdk's update repository and then install > it manually instead of using urpmi? > > The reason is that I want to download the rpm through my colo server first > (it > h

[newbie] Download the rpm directly instead of urpmi

2004-12-08 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi folks, Can I download the rpm directly from Mdk's update repository and then install it manually instead of using urpmi? The reason is that I want to download the rpm through my colo server first (it has better speed), and then download it to my notebook (the speed should be much better, sin