Re: [newbie] problems with MandrakeUpdate

2001-04-20 Thread Jay DeKing
OK, sounds fair enough, but my question is this: why does MandrakeUpdate tell me that I do not have the current version of rpm(x) even though I know that I do? If I download and install the latest version, it bombs out because it is already installed! I do run "update list" after every install, a

Re: [newbie] problems with MandrakeUpdate

2001-04-19 Thread Eric
MandrakeUpdate in MDK 7.2 is buggy. This is my persnal way of using it. I use it to tell me what to update and check for special instructions for install, then I open two terminals. In one I ftp the the site that MandrakeUpdate reads from. In the other I do rmp -Uvh manually for each downlo

Re: [newbie] problems with MandrakeUpdate

2001-04-19 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Thursday 19 April 2001 12:21, Seeun William Umboh wrote about [newbie] problems with MandrakeUpdate that ... > I just installed Mandrake 7.1. I tried using MandrakeUpdate to update my > system but it kept saying "Fetching of mirror list failed. Please try > again." This h