Re: [newbie] Urpmi update problem.

2005-04-03 Thread Simon
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:52, Mr. Geek wrote: Simon; You have to uninstall libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf and possibly ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf before you can install the newer version of both packages using; urpme ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf which should also remove the

Re: [newbie] Urpmi update problem.

2005-04-03 Thread Mr. Geek
Simon wrote: On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:52, Mr. Geek wrote: Simon; You have to uninstall libMagick7.8.1 = 6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf and possibly ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf before you can install the newer version of both packages using; urpme ImageMagick-6.1.8.9-0.1010.1plf which should also

[newbie] urpmi adding resources

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed them, but failed to add Thacs RPMs. I'm wondering if I have used the command incorrectly. urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz Am I supposed to name the media maybe? Any

Re: [newbie] urpmi adding resources

2005-03-20 Thread Mr. Geek
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed them, but failed to add Thacs RPMs. I'm wondering if I have used the command incorrectly. urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz Am I supposed to

Re: [newbie] urpmi adding resources

2005-03-20 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 01:31, Mr. Geek wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I looked at the Twiki for instructions how to add resources and followed them, but failed to add Thacs RPMs. I'm wondering if I have used the command incorrectly. urpmi.addmedia nameofmedia

[newbie] Urpmi TWiki out of date

2005-03-19 Thread hackhound
Greetings, I was just looking at the Urpmi TWiki at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi and It says to copy the base/ and Mandrake/ directories to a foler you create on the hard drive. My CDs (10.1) do not have these two folders, which leads me to believe the TWiki is out of

Re: [newbie] urpmi can't locate URPM.pm

2005-03-16 Thread Graham
Steven Carrie wrote: Hi everyone, this is my first cry for help on the newbie list. I was tinkering with mandrake 10.1 and decided to upgrade to the cooker source. Can't locate URPM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6

Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-15 Thread Smiley
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:06:29 -0800 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find information and directions on how to set it up on the site: http://www.eslrahc.com/ He also offers RPMs for stuff like gaim, and other popular programs that don't get updated very frequently on the official

Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-15 Thread Julie Sloan
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 01:06 am, Amy wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:47:00 -0500, Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1. I'm not sure how you can make the source you're trying to use work, but I can direct you to a

Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-15 Thread Julie Sloan
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:49 am, Smiley wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:06:29 -0800 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find information and directions on how to set it up on the site: http://www.eslrahc.com/ He also offers RPMs for stuff like gaim, and other popular programs that

[newbie] urpmi can't locate URPM.pm

2005-03-15 Thread Steven Carrie
Hi everyone, this is my first cry for help on the newbie list. I was tinkering with mandrake 10.1 and decided to upgrade to the cooker source. So I updated my urpmi sources and began to install. Shortly into the process the power failed because my PSU has gone dodgy. Now when I try anything

Re: [newbie] urpmi can't locate URPM.pm

2005-03-15 Thread Mr. Geek
Steven Carrie wrote: Hi everyone, this is my first cry for help on the newbie list. I was tinkering with mandrake 10.1 and decided to upgrade to the cooker source. So I updated my urpmi sources and began to install. Shortly into the process the power failed because my PSU has gone dodgy. Now

[newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-14 Thread Julie Sloan
when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1. I've been to the website and looked at the 1.0.1 rpm, which gives its location as http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/ but when I tried to add this (up to the first slash before

Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-14 Thread Amy
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:47:00 -0500, Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1. I've been to the website and looked at the 1.0.1 rpm, which gives its location as

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-13 Thread RickSisler
joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RickSisler wrote: did you try what bascule mentions: try the full path to urpmi # /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels I did, and like magic, urpmi worked. The question I have, is why is /usr/sbin no longer in my $PATH, and/or how should I edit my bashrc so that it is.

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
joe wrote: RickSisler wrote: joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: bascule wrote: have you checked your path? echo $PATH try the full path to urpmi /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $path Joe, the variable name is declared with Capital letters, so type:: # echo $PATH I am

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found PROBLEM SOLVED

2005-03-13 Thread joe
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The directoryies /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin are not normaly in a user's path. They are in root's path when you log in as root, or when you su - to root. Normaly, when you do su instead of su -, you keep the same path. But in Mandrake 10.1, when ever root

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-12 Thread joe
bascule wrote: have you checked your path? echo $PATH try the full path to urpmi /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $path [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/urpmi urpmi version 4.5 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Mandrakesoft. This is free software and may be redistributed under the terms of the GNU

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-12 Thread RickSisler
joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: bascule wrote: have you checked your path? echo $PATH try the full path to urpmi /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $path Joe, the variable name is declared with Capital letters, so type:: # echo $PATH

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-12 Thread joe
RickSisler wrote: joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: bascule wrote: have you checked your path? echo $PATH try the full path to urpmi /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo $path Joe, the variable name is declared with Capital letters, so type:: # echo $PATH I am working on

Re: [newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-11 Thread Margot
Tahir Abdullah wrote: Thanks Aron When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes urpmi database locked WHat is this problem. This usually happens after failed or interrupted download/installation. To cure it, as root in terminal: rm

Re: [newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-11 Thread SnapafunFrank
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:56 pm, Tahir Abdullah wrote: Thanks Aron When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes urpmi database locked WHat is this problem. a reboot will fix this (inelegent and there is probably a better way) The

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-11 Thread Adrian Coman
maybe you su from one user ... try su - , urpmi is not available for normal users. joe wrote: Anyone have an idea why urpmi stopped working? Mandrake 10.1 official. Been using it sucsessfully for quite a while now. urpmi shows up in rpmdrake, I apparently sucessfully (re)-installed it. Yet i

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-11 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:47:16 -0700 joe disseminated the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels bash: urpmi: command not found Did you try 'urpmi urpmi'? ...just kidding :-))) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:16:52 up 18 days, 16:20, 2 users, load average:

[newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-10 Thread joe
Anyone have an idea why urpmi stopped working? Mandrake 10.1 official. Been using it sucsessfully for quite a while now. urpmi shows up in rpmdrake, I apparently sucessfully (re)-installed it. Yet i get [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels bash: urpmi: command not found Googling has thus

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-10 Thread bascule
have you checked your path? echo $PATH try the full path to urpmi /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels bascule On Friday 11 Mar 2005 03:47, joe wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels bash: urpmi: command not found -- The kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. --

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-10 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Friday 11 March 2005 12:02 pm, bascule wrote: have you checked your path? echo $PATH try the full path to urpmi /usr/sbin/urpmi glabels bascule On Friday 11 Mar 2005 03:47, joe wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels bash: urpmi: command not found Also try locate it by hand:

[newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-10 Thread Tahir Abdullah
Thanks Aron When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes urpmi database locked WHat is this problem. The second problem is whenever I send mail from my hotmail. It goes twice How can I fix it? I appreciate any guidance. Thanks Tahir

[newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-10 Thread Tahir Abdullah
Thanks Aron When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes urpmi database locked WHat is this problem. The second problem is whenever I send mail from my hotmail. It goes twice How can I fix it? I appreciate any guidance. Thanks Tahir

Re: [newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:56 pm, Tahir Abdullah wrote: Thanks Aron When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes urpmi database locked WHat is this problem. a reboot will fix this (inelegent and there is probably a better way) The second problem is whenever

Re: [newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-06 Thread SnapafunFrank
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Recently, while attempting to 'urpmi' a new program, I got the following message at the command line: unable to access hdlist file of eslrahc, medium ignored I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put

Re: [newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-06 Thread Graham Watkins
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:35:28 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? Well, this may not be the 'best' sol'n, but try removing and adding the source again. I had to

[newbie] urpmi --fuzzy downloads without asking!

2005-03-06 Thread JR
when I do urpmi --fuzzy package, it sometimes downloads the package anyway, without giving me a choice. Am I misunderstanding this switch? I expected to be asked regardless how many similar packages there were (even if there was only one) Jarlath

Re: [newbie] urpmi --fuzzy downloads without asking!

2005-03-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 06 March 2005 3:25 pm, JR wrote: when I do urpmi --fuzzy package, it sometimes downloads the package anyway, without giving me a choice. Am I misunderstanding this switch? I expected to be asked regardless how many similar packages there were (even if there was only one) If there is

Re: [newbie] urpmi --fuzzy downloads without asking!

2005-03-06 Thread Margot
JR wrote: when I do urpmi --fuzzy package, it sometimes downloads the package anyway, without giving me a choice. Am I misunderstanding this switch? I expected to be asked regardless how many similar packages there were (even if there was only one) Jarlath urpmi --fuzzy package *does*

Re: [newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-05 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:35:28 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? Well, this may not be the 'best' sol'n, but try removing and adding the source again. I had to do this a

[newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Dan Gordon
On March 4, 2005 09:48 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? Hmm, I thought that I did - maybe I got in a hurry and missed it (multiple times - shaking head at self). I'll

[newbie] urpmi query

2005-03-04 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all, Recently, while attempting to 'urpmi' a new program, I got the following message at the command line: unable to access hdlist file of eslrahc, medium ignored I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? cheers, -- Graham

[newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Julie Sloan
Hi all, is there a way I can save a copy of my urpmi updates to disk, so that if I need to reinstall / I can also reinstall the updates without having to download for hours? thanks Julie -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread N. B. Day
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:15 -0500, Julie Sloan wrote: Hi all, is there a way I can save a copy of my urpmi updates to disk, so that if I need to reinstall / I can also reinstall the updates without having to download for hours? thanks Julie Use the --noclean switch. The rpms will be in

Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Julie Sloan
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:35 pm, N. B. Day wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:15 -0500, Julie Sloan wrote: Hi all, is there a way I can save a copy of my urpmi updates to disk, so that if I need to reinstall / I can also reinstall the updates without having to download for hours?

Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:35 pm, N. B. Day wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:15 -0500, Julie Sloan wrote: Hi all, is there a way I can save a copy of my urpmi updates to disk, so that if I need to reinstall / I can also reinstall the updates without having to download for hours?

Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thursday 24 February 2005 06:56 am, Aron Smith wrote: Use the --noclean switch. The rpms will be in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms. Oh boy, I wish I knew it before :( -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 07:01:32 up 7:26, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for

Re: [newbie] urpmi backups to disk?

2005-02-23 Thread Julie Sloan
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:02 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 24 February 2005 06:56 am, Aron Smith wrote: Use the --noclean switch. The rpms will be in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms. Oh boy, I wish I knew it before :( Me too. Only 952Mb to go at 56Kbps Julie --

[newbie] URPMI Issue??

2005-02-08 Thread Hugh Crissman
When I try to install something via urpmi I get the follwoing error? error: failed to stat /home/data_on_wxps1: Input/output error Now, /home/data_... is an old local directory that I had a rpm dir. mirrored to. Since then I have changed the dir where I rsync rpms to. I also updated all the

Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-06 Thread Stuart R. Fuller
On Friday 04 February 2005 11:22 am, Paul wrote: I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system. Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it. I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no

[newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system. Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it. I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no effect.

[newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it. Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only) S.5T /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1 missing/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir S.5T c /etc/hotplug/blacklist .M.. c

Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote: I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system. Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find it. I've rebuilt the rpm database (twice), with no

Re: [newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
Paul wrote: After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it. Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only) S.5T /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1 missing/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir S.5T c /etc/hotplug/blacklist

Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote: I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system. Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its not there when I try to remove. Slocate doesn't find

Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 04 February 2005 04:47 pm, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote: I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system. Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its

Re: [newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:35, Avi Schwartz wrote: Paul wrote: After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it. Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only) S.5T /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1 missing

Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 04 February 2005 04:47 pm, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote: I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system. Urpmi tells me it

[newbie] urpmi agony still

2005-02-01 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, The urpmi source called ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.0/RPMS is still not working. Can someone tell me how I get rid of that resource? I am trying to get gdk-pixbuf2 installed for the GTK2-port of Sylpheed, but wolfenbuettel won't hand

Re: [newbie] urpmi agony still

2005-02-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 16:55, Paul wrote: Hi everyone, The urpmi source called ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrakelinux/official /updates/10.0/RPMS is still not working. Can someone tell me how I get rid of that resource? Can't you just remove it in

Re: [newbie] urpmi agony still

2005-02-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 1 2005 07:55 am, Paul wrote: In mcc use the software manager (beside updates) to remove update_source, then the next time you run updates you'll need to choose a new mirror. Hi everyone, The urpmi source called

Re: [newbie] urpmi agony still

2005-02-01 Thread Paul
Kaj wrote: If you don't use a GUI, then (as root) urpmi.removemedia [name] Thanks for the pointer, I had already tried this. I just got lost on the [name] part... On Tue February 1 2005 07:55 am, Paul wrote: In mcc use the software manager (beside updates) to remove update_source, then the

Re: [newbie] urpmi locked

2005-01-28 Thread et
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 12:07 pm, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:27, Dave Needham wrote: -- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is locked. su ps -A kill (replace ?s with number of urpmi or whatever) is the long way, can't think of the

[newbie] urpmi locked

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Needham
-- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is locked. Many Thanks To All Who Reply Best Wishes Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] urpmi locked

2005-01-26 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:27, Dave Needham wrote: -- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is locked. su ps -A kill (replace ?s with number of urpmi or whatever) is the long way, can't think of the short way at the moment

Re: [newbie] urpmi locked

2005-01-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 17:07, Paul wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:27, Dave Needham wrote: -- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is locked. su ps -A kill (replace ?s with number of urpmi or whatever)

[newbie] urpmi

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Needham
just out of curiosity when you set up urpmi for updates do i have to check once a wekk or does it do it itself automaticali.ive set it up and works 100% but what next please. dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2005-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:45, Dave Needham wrote: just out of curiosity when you set up urpmi for updates do i have to check once a wekk or does it do it itself automaticali.ive set it up and works 100% but what next please. dave If you are using 10.1 every time you open the

Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-24 Thread bascule
do you have the latest version of mandrake, previous ones had cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /base/ /RPMS/ or just cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /RPMS(N)/ the latest ones seem to have cdroot/ /media/ /main/

Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 Jan 2005 15:23, bascule wrote: do you have the latest version of mandrake, previous ones had cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /base/ /RPMS/ or just cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /RPMS(N)/ the

Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 10:23 AM 1/24/2005, bascule said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): do you have the latest version of mandrake, previous ones had cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /base/ /RPMS/ or just cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /RPMS(N)/

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Graham Watkins
Margot wrote: Nooo! I think we'd better transfer any further 'goat' discussion to the OT list... Yup, before you get everybody's goat :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Paul
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 00:02, Julie Sloan wrote: Paul wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: In the re-install, make a separate /home dir this time ;) Also, IME, one real big /stor dir is better than many. BTW, when you re-install I recommend ReiserFS. And make a separate

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 15:52, Paul wrote: ResierFS is a file system, not a partition - like the windows NTFS, FAT32. You can choose which file-system your linux partitions use ReiserFS, Ext3, etc To some extent the choice of file system is a

[newbie] URPMI

2005-01-23 Thread id1davewp
NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] URPMI

2005-01-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 23 January 2005 15:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE Here's is one, for a start : ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/ You didn't mention your Mandrake version, so just scroll down to the one you have. On the other hand,

Re: [newbie] URPMI

2005-01-23 Thread Dan Gordon
On January 23, 2005 09:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE Ok don't yell at us please :-) http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sun Jan 23 10:16:18 EST 2005 10:16:18 up 14:37, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.01 America is the country

Re: [newbie] URPMI

2005-01-23 Thread Johan
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:13:56 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 15:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NEED THE URL OF THE URPMI UPDATES PLEASE Be root and create and run this script..works for me..MDK 10.0 official..call it any

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 22 January 2005 04:38 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 10:32 am, Julie Sloan wrote: I copied /home to a CD, will reinstall 10.0, and hopefully during the reinstall will set up a storage partition or two. I'm dualbooting WinXP and Mandrake;

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-23 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 16:32, Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Julie Sloan lied: [sorry - anything further I'll post to the OT list] Down the mighty Mississip, into the Gulf, through the Panama Canal, head directly SSW and don't stop till you smack into Windang Island.

[newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
I looked at the urpmi page in the TWiki, and saw that it should be possible to copy the install disks to my hard drive and make urpmi look there instead of asking for the CDs. But I cannot follow the directions as written. 1. The directions state that I should copy the /base and /Mandrake

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Margot
Julie Sloan wrote: BTW I've located my mailboxes - all with weird names but oh well, I can get the data out of them now - - but where is my KMail addresbook? All I've found so far is recently used addresses, which is nicely more than I had a few hours ago but still not the entire mailing list,

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 04:35, Julie Sloan wrote: There should be a text file with that info in your ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/addressbook or something like that I don't use kmail. Open it in a terminal and you should have your info. thank you

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Lanman
Anne Wilson wrote: The folder is called kabc and the file is probably std.vcf Anne Julie; Margot asked me to drop in and lend a hand if possible. I've had a quick look at the thread in order to catch up. If I understand things clearly, you were trying to do a 10.0 update, but accidentally did an

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 12:41, Lanman wrote: Don't forget to save your .Mail folder as well as your std.vcf file, documents and any other media or data you'd like to save. If you need help setting up a second hard drive on this PC, just holler

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Lanman
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 12:41, Lanman wrote: Don't forget to save your .Mail folder as well as your std.vcf file, documents and any other media or data you'd like to save. If you need help setting up a second hard drive on this PC,

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 21 January 2005 04:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: What is your choice? (1-4) 4 To satisfy dependencies, the following 556 packages are going to be installed (1088 MB): I am on dialup.  22Mb takes an hour and a half.  Do I need 1088 additional Mb?? It's not 1088 'additional'

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 15:38, Julie Sloan wrote: when I run rpmdrake I get this: generous snip IF it were me, at this stage, I would backup what I could, and format the HD and start fresh. I came to the same conclusion after sleeping on it. Thankfully K3b still works!

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 04:35, Julie Sloan wrote: There should be a text file with that info in your ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/addressbook or something like that I don't use kmail. Open it in a terminal and you should have your info. thank you Mike, but no, no addrbook in that

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Margot wrote: Julie, I suggest you start new threads for each new problem you encounter - I can't help with Kmail addressbook as I've never used Kmail, and I don't even use KDE - but if you start a thread marked lost Kmail addressbook I'm sure that someone here will be able to help you find it.

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Lanman wrote: Julie; Margot asked me to drop in and lend a hand if possible. I've had a quick look at the thread in order to catch up. If I understand things clearly, you were trying to do a 10.0 update, but accidentally did an update using 10.1 sources and now several things are broken. Hi

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 12:41, Lanman wrote: Don't forget to save your .Mail folder as well as your std.vcf file, documents and any other media or data you'd like to save. If you need help setting up a second hard drive on this PC, just holler back to the list or to me off-list.

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 04:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: To satisfy dependencies, the following 556 packages are going to be installed (1088 MB): I am on dialup. 22Mb takes an hour and a half. Do I need 1088 additional Mb?? It's not 1088 'additional' mb. MOF, it's not

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Lanman
Julie Sloan wrote: I came to the same conclusion after sleeping on it. Thankfully K3b still works! Ouch! You slept on your hard drive? Didn't that hurt? Grin! thanks, Julie -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:31, Julie Sloan wrote:consider Stephen's advice Gonna start from scratch. I've burned just about all of ~/ onto a CD and should probably wait a day before I reinstall, to see if I think of anything else I need to save,

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:32, Julie Sloan wrote: I copied /home to a CD, will reinstall 10.0, and hopefully during the reinstall will set up a storage partition or two. I'm dualbooting WinXP and Mandrake; have the Win on the original harddrive

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:31, Julie Sloan wrote:consider Stephen's advice Gonna start from scratch. I've burned just about all of ~/ onto a CD and should probably wait a day before I reinstall, to see if I think of anything else I

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 06:35, Julie Sloan wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:31, Julie Sloan wrote:consider Stephen's advice Gonna start from scratch. I've burned just about all of ~/ onto a CD and should probably wait

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Julie Sloan
Well, after sleeping on the harddrive I am confusing the two ;) Stephen Kühn wrote: Linux causes you to tear out hair? Are you sure you're not confusing linux with men? Men causing you to tear your hair out I can fully understand, but linux? Nah. Easier to control. Much more so than men. Ask

Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-22 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:38, Julie Sloan wrote: Well, after sleeping on the harddrive I am confusing the two ;) Stephen Kühn wrote: Linux causes you to tear out hair? Are you sure you're not confusing linux with men? Men causing you to tear your hair out I can fully

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