[newbie] urpmi setup

2003-08-05 Thread Aron Smith
What was that site for easy setup of urpmi Again sigh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-25 Thread Tony S. Sykes
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:05, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Dan, > > It is my works network which has the server. They don't want to create a > root acc

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-24 Thread ed tharp
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root > > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:25 +0100 > "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All, > > &g

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-24 Thread Tony S. Sykes
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root To be honest, I don't know with any certainty, but I doubt it Other ideas that occured to me was to setup a proxy on that internal machine and use iptables to transparently forward all port 21 stuff to the proxy, and have the proxy

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 18:48, Frankie wrote: > I personally think he should use rsync to mirror the updates > dir on one of the FTP server > then add that rsync'd dir as an update source for urpmi... > > The whole lot could run from cron. That's the best option, I agree. It's sure to work. --

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
ED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2003 12:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wednesday 23 July 2003 17:20, Frankie wrote: > I had a thought on this that "might" be feasable.. Frankie how about softlinking a directory to

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Robin Turner
Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Reason being is I am behind a ms proxy which authenticates user id's. They will not create a root one for me so it will have to be my own user for the updates. How do I do this? Can I do this? You could try using rpm with

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:25 +0100 "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Yes. You can do it using sudo. I have never used sudo so I only have a rough understanding of how to set it up. Perhaps others on this list or possibly the expert

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 17:20, Frankie wrote: > I had a thought on this that "might" be feasable.. Frankie how about softlinking a directory to a remote site and using that? Wouldn't that be feasible? I've never tried so I don't know. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Tony S. Sykes
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:25 +0100 "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Reason being is I > am behind a ms proxy which authe

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 17:08, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > HarM, > > I am able to use the account just not able to get out with it. I am > wanting to use urmpi as it resolves dependency problems, and I don't > have to much time at work to do all the searching. It would be bad > enough if they found ou

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
that might give you somewhere to start looking. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wednesday 23

RE: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Tony S. Sykes
hanks, Tony. -Original Message- From: H.J.Bathoorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root On Wednesday 23 July 2003 16:07, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > All, > > Is it possible to do urpmi

Re: [newbie] urpmi as a user and not root

2003-07-23 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:07:25 +0100 "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Is it possible to do urpmi as a user and not root. Reason being is I > am behind a ms proxy which authenticates user id's. They will not > create a root one for me so it will have to be my own user for the >

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Albert Charron wrote: I got exactly the same problem when I set my CD-rom to scsi emulation. I'm also running MDK9.1. I solve the problem so I think it could help if I post the way I solved it. 1- from package source manager, remove ALL entries OK 2- delete ALL the content of /var/lib/urpmi

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread Eric Huff
This doesn't really solve the cd problem, but if rpm is the only thing having trouble with it, and you have a high speed connection, you can go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php and add a 'main' source. Then you'll never have to do the Dance Of the CD rpms again... eric Want to

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: none /mnt/cdrom2 dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask =0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom My burner line is none /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > none /mnt/cdrom2 > dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask >=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom My burner line is none /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 Does that he

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread John Richard Smith
John Drouhard wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:28:03 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: About those # experiments, try changing the above 5 lines to read like this: #/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 #/dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 2:45 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 11:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote: John, I understand your frustration, but I di

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 2:45 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Friday 18 Jul 2003 11:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Anne Wilson wrote: > >>>On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>>John, I understand your frustration, but I did not intend to be > >>>c

Re: [newbie] urpmi update performed on Xine...

2003-07-18 Thread Pilagá
El Vie 18 Jul 2003 02:07, dfox escribió: > Haven't seen that one yet. Installing xine is confusing, > since there are so many components and it is unclear to > me which to install. > > What distro are you using? I was using 9.1/cooker until > recently. My recent addition (CD/DVD combo drive) seems

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 11:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't think 9.1 is broken per se, or we would all have the problem. However, I think it may well be breakable I used to have t

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't think 9.1 is broken per se, or we would all have the problem. However, I think it may well be breakable I used to have this problem with 8.2, and I'm pretty certain that it was the connection between chair and

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 11:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>>I don't think 9.1 is broken per se, or we would all have the > >>>problem. However, I think it may well be breakable I used > >>> to have this problem wi

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't think 9.1 is broken per se, or we would all have the problem. However, I think it may well be breakable I used to have this problem with 8.2, and I'm pretty certain that it was the connection between chair and

Re: [newbie] urpmi update performed on Xine...

2003-07-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:26 am, Brooks Family wrote: > I'm using 9.1, but I don't know about the cooker thing. Actually, > I just did a urpmi update and then did an install using the GUI in > the Mandrake Control Center and it installed Xine, Mplayer, and > Totem perfectly, and they all seem to run

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 7:10 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >I don't think 9.1 is broken per se, or we would all have the > > problem. However, I think it may well be breakable I used to > > have this problem with 8.2, and I'm pretty certain that it was > > the connection between chair and keyboar

Re: [newbie] urpmi update performed on Xine...

2003-07-17 Thread Brooks Family
I'm using 9.1, but I don't know about the cooker thing.  Actually, I just did a urpmi update and then did an install using the GUI in the Mandrake Control Center and it installed Xine, Mplayer, and Totem perfectly, and they all seem to run like a champ now.  *shrug*  I don't know how or why, bu

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD in /dev/scd0, no problem, but when I give it the relevent CD, it keeps on rejecting it. it says please incert CD2 in /dev/scd0cdr

Re: [newbie] urpmi update performed on Xine...

2003-07-17 Thread dfox
> > > xine: relocation error: xine: undefined symbol: xine_engine_set_param > Haven't seen that one yet. Installing xine is confusing, since there are so many components and it is unclear to me which to install. What distro are you using? I was using 9.1/cooker until recently. My recent additio

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:09:44 +0100 Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. > > > > urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD in /dev/scd0, > > no problem, but when I give it the relevent CD, it

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:23, John Richard Smith wrote: > I tried that a good many times. > Even tried giving it the disc number it wasn't asking for, but same. > It's either broken of it's the programmes way of saying it ain't got > what it's looking for, and I know that in one case it was not tru

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
John Drouhard wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:46:48 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD in /dev/scd0, no problem, but when I give it the relevent CD, it keeps on rejecting it. it says please incert C

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
I tried that a good many times. Even tried giving it the disc number it wasn't asking for, but same. It's either broken of it's the programmes way of saying it ain't got what it's looking for, and I know that in one case it was not true because I merely searched the disc and fond what was wanted

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. > > urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD in /dev/scd0, > no problem, but when I give it the relevent CD, it keeps on rejecting > it. > > it says please incert CD2 in /dev/scd0cdrom2, which i

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:44:58 -0400 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Though not particularly insightful, I'd remove the CD media, and then > add it again to see if that makes a difference. Or even follow Stephen's suggestion and copy the CDs to your HD, ie. /usr/src/mdkcd1, etc. then, no swapp

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread Miark
Though not particularly insightful, I'd remove the CD media, and then add it again to see if that makes a difference. Miark On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:46:48 +, John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. > > urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD in

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread John Drouhard
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:46:48 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. > > urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD in /dev/scd0, > no problem, but when I give it the relevent CD, it keeps on rejecting it. > > it says please incert CD2 in /dev/

[newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD in /dev/scd0, no problem, but when I give it the relevent CD, it keeps on rejecting it. it says please incert CD2 in /dev/scd0cdrom2, which is wrong, though it may not matter, as my dvd is mounted /dev/scd0 /mnt/

Re: [newbie] urpmi mplayer error message on install

2003-07-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 12:09 am, Brooks Family wrote: > what does urpme do? >SNIP man urpme will tell you. Other related commands are urpmq and urpmf derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://ww

Re: [newbie] urpmi mplayer error message on install

2003-07-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 5:45 pm, Brooks Family wrote: > I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and I ran the urpmi command for the mplayer. > The computer went out and found all the necessary install packages and > downloaded them, but when it tried to install them, it failed, showing > > these errors: > > Inst

Re: [newbie] urpmi mplayer error message on install

2003-07-16 Thread Lanman
Jack; you must have installed some RPM's from the PLF site in the past. Find and uninstall those RPM's and retry your install of mplayer. Lanman On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:45, Brooks Family wrote: > I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and I ran the urpmi command for the mplayer. > The computer went out and

[newbie] urpmi mplayer error message on install

2003-07-16 Thread Brooks Family
I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and I ran the urpmi command for the mplayer. The computer went out and found all the necessary install packages and downloaded them, but when it tried to install them, it failed, showing these errors: Installation failed: file /usr/lib/win32/lhacm.acm from inst

Re: [newbie] URPMI error

2003-07-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 08:49, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > Yes the error is the same. > > The only files I've edited manually were fstab to recognize my Win disk, > and urpmi sources. Other than that a, number of packages were installed > via both urpmi & rpm -ivh > Until the other day, urpmi *did*

Re: [newbie] URPMI error

2003-07-10 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 06:22, Damian Gatabria wrote: > El jue, 10-07-2003 a las 05:47, Curt Tresenriter escribió: > > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:45, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > > El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 18:40, Curt Tresenriter escribió: > > > > Every time I use urpmi lately I get: > > > > > > > > eje

Re: [newbie] URPMI error

2003-07-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
El jue, 10-07-2003 a las 05:47, Curt Tresenriter escribió: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:45, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 18:40, Curt Tresenriter escribió: > > > Every time I use urpmi lately I get: > > > > > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > > > > > > C

Re: [newbie] URPMI error

2003-07-10 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:45, Damian Gatabria wrote: > El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 18:40, Curt Tresenriter escribió: > > Every time I use urpmi lately I get: > > > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > > > > Can someone tell me why? > > Curt > > does you cdrom tray get to open? On

Re: [newbie] URPMI error

2003-07-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 18:40, Curt Tresenriter escribió: > Every time I use urpmi lately I get: > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > > Can someone tell me why? > Curt does you cdrom tray get to open? i get it too, but only when my cdrom (which is SOOO crappy and old) fai

Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more

2003-07-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 28 Jun 2003 7:37 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read > Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. > Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did > urpmi checkinstall - it repor

Re: [newbie] URPMI.... once more, again.. Charlie

2003-06-30 Thread Charlie
quoting Curt Tresenriter; Sunday 29 June 2003 08:25 am: > > Hi Charlie, > > Yes I did add a source for contrib before issuing the command. > Thanks for the tip about the build dir. I'll do that. > Curt Sorry about that Curt, busy weekend. It seems the message did get through, but the ol' sympa s

Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more

2003-06-28 Thread C Tresenriter
At 02:08 PM 6/28/03 -0600, you wrote: quoting Curt Tresenriter; Saturday 28 June 2003 12:37 pm: > Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read > Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. > Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) s

Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more

2003-06-28 Thread Charlie
quoting Curt Tresenriter; Saturday 28 June 2003 12:37 pm: > Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read > Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. > Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did > urpmi checkinstall - it repo

[newbie] urpmi... once more

2003-06-28 Thread Curt Tresenriter
Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did urpmi checkinstall - it reported two dependencies, I said yes and it failed saying some files

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:23:35 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 05:21:54 -0500 > "C. Tresenriter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > > > This happened a couple days ago - following some advice here, I > > removed all the CD sources to rely on the 'main' that I have ad

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
There's a twiki on it at: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi#Using_urpmi On Sunday 22 June 2003 03:25 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation > out there also is it better to download from one mirror in this > case UC Santa Cruz or

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2003-06-22 Thread Jason Guidry
Aron Smith wrote: Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation out there what do you need from urpmi that rpmdrake doesn't provide? also is it better to download from one mirror in this case UC Santa Cruz or to spread it out amoung 3 or four servers? urpmi will just download f

[newbie] urpmi

2003-06-22 Thread Aron Smith
Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation out there also is it better to download from one mirror in this case UC Santa Cruz or to spread it out amoung 3 or four servers? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] urpmi updates - Bad signatures

2003-06-09 Thread Charlie
quoting Trey Sizemore's missive of Sunday 08 June 2003 09:13 pm: > Trying to update my system using 'urpmi --auto --auto-select' and I'm > getting the message on several packages: > > The following packages have bad signatures: > -->Lists of packages > > If I suspect these are actually good packa

Re: [newbie] urpmi: You may want to update your urpmi database

2003-06-09 Thread RichardA
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:49:25 +0100 Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check your mirror for 9.0 contrib is still there. A lot of the 9.0 > mirrors have been disappearing off the web recently. > > derek Got it - the message isn't "update the details of your sources", it's "update the actua

Re: [newbie] urpmi updates - Bad signatures

2003-06-08 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 08 June 2003 10:13 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Trying to update my system using 'urpmi --auto --auto-select' and I'm > getting the message on several packages: > > The following packages have bad signatures: > -->Lists of packages > > If I suspect these are actually good packages, is the

Re: [newbie] urpmi updates - Bad signatures

2003-06-08 Thread Miark
Add --no-verify-rpm and it won't both you with bad sigs anymore. Miark On 08 Jun 2003 23:13:13 -0400 Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to update my system using 'urpmi --auto --auto-select' and I'm > getting the message on several packages: > > The following packages have bad

[newbie] urpmi updates - Bad signatures

2003-06-08 Thread Trey Sizemore
Trying to update my system using 'urpmi --auto --auto-select' and I'm getting the message on several packages: The following packages have bad signatures: -->Lists of packages If I suspect these are actually good packages, is there a way to get them installed? They are from Cooker and Texstart

Re: [newbie] URPMI description install

2003-05-30 Thread Cody Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi *game* dd d d d d d d d d dno package named *game* [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dd PS: the "d"s are me seeing of the program was responding ;) At 07:33 PM 5/29/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2003 05:34 pm, Michael Lothian wrote: > Hi I was wondering if there

Re: [newbie] URPMI description install

2003-05-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 29 May 2003 05:34 pm, Michael Lothian wrote: > Hi I was wondering if there was a way to make URPMI install RPMs who's > descrption contains a particular word ie game > > I can do it in Sortware Install however it has issues when my ISP > disconects me every two hours so I prefer using t

[newbie] URPMI description install

2003-05-30 Thread Michael Lothian
Hi I was wondering if there was a way to make URPMI install RPMs who's descrption contains a particular word ie game I can do it in Sortware Install however it has issues when my ISP disconects me every two hours so I prefer using the command line. Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Servic

[newbie] URPMI Source list problem.

2003-04-06 Thread Keith Powell
I have been trying to set up a URPMI source list for 9.1, by modifying the 9.0 list changing 9.0 to 9.1. The sources are found, except for texstar and plf. I am entering these commands in a terminal (as root): urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar

Re: [newbie] urpmi sources

2003-04-06 Thread Linus Drouhard
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:02, Derek wrote: > On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:20 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except > > the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through > > MCC. I can set up the mirror

Re: [newbie] urpmi sources

2003-04-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 03 April 2003 15:20, Linus Drouhard wrote: > Hi all,> I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except > the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through > MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find the packages I want to install. > Everythin

Re: [newbie] urpmi sources

2003-04-03 Thread Derek
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:20 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote: > Hi all, > I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except > the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through > MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find the packages I want to install. > Everythi

[newbie] urpmi sources

2003-04-03 Thread Linus Drouhard
Hi all, I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find the packages I want to install. Everything works until I get an error that the signature is not valid,

Re: [newbie] urpmi is hanging

2003-03-15 Thread David E. Fox
> main ftp site back in until I did the delete and reinstall. No idea why but > maybe it will work in your situation. HTH Well, it may be a one-time problem with the specific mirror I'm using for updates. I was able to continue by ctrl-c and it then began to integrate the new data for the other

Re: [newbie] urpmi is hanging

2003-03-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 14 March 2003 10:13 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > Strangely enough, but now when I want to update my urpmi setup, it's > sitting there hanging. I'm doing 'urpmi.update -a' and it's just > hanging all at the first site (ftp1u). I didn't change my > configuration at all. Anyone elese experienci

[newbie] urpmi is hanging

2003-03-14 Thread David E. Fox
Strangely enough, but now when I want to update my urpmi setup, it's sitting there hanging. I'm doing 'urpmi.update -a' and it's just hanging all at the first site (ftp1u). I didn't change my configuration at all. Anyone elese experiencing problems connecting to sites? here, ftp1u is off of gatech

Re: [newbie] urpmi problems

2003-02-27 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:10, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: > I thought all the install problems with packages under mandrake 9.0 would > be behind me by following this procedure: > > 1. Delete all entries in directory /var/lib/urpmi > 2. Create file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg with zero length > 3. D

[newbie] urpmi problems

2003-02-27 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
I thought all the install problems with packages under mandrake 9.0 would be behind me by following this procedure: 1. Delete all entries in directory /var/lib/urpmi 2. Create file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg with zero length 3. Delete all files /var/cache/urpmi/headers 4. Copy all RPMS amd SRMPS from th

RE: [newbie] urpmi updates

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Wideman
>> You have to copy over the lists created for these sources on your system >> to the other server as well. I can't remember which directory it is, but >> search the archives as this has been asked before. (At work and Linux >> box at home) Ah, no wonder. Thats ok. I installed the sources manual

RE: [newbie] urpmi updates

2003-02-26 Thread Tony S. Sykes
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:53 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] urpmi updates I have 2 systems with MDK9 installed. One is my workstation that has been running for a few months and urmpi/grpmi have contrib/updates/plf/unsupported sites listed and working just

[newbie] urpmi updates

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Wideman
I have 2 systems with MDK9 installed. One is my workstation that has been running for a few months and urmpi/grpmi have contrib/updates/plf/unsupported sites listed and working just fine. Reading the man pages for urpmi it uses the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file as the configuration file of the source

[newbie] Urpmi can't locate base.pm after update

2003-02-19 Thread T E
Hi all, I recently did a clean install of mdk 8.2 and used these commands to update: urpmi.addmedia --update PlzWork with ../base/RPMS then urpmi --update --auto-select The packages appear to have updated, however, I cannot use URPMI any more. Whenever I type urpmi I get this error: Can't lo

Re: [newbie] URPMI: ONLY update installed packages?

2003-02-05 Thread T E
I tried using the command you suggested but it was still asking to install dependacies and items such as samba. Did I do something wrong? Do I need to remove the other sources so it doesn't check for updates on those as well? I found a cron HOWTO and think I have the basic idea... but I dont' wa

Re: [newbie] URPMI: ONLY update installed packages?

2003-02-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 9:31 pm, T E wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just followed the instructions for Mandrake URPMI > updates on www.urpmi.org - and wow - if you haven't > already looked into this subject I highly suggest it! > > My question is this: How can I setup a urpmi update to > happen ONLY to

[newbie] urpmi message

2003-02-02 Thread Scott Parks
Hi gang. I have Mandrake 9.0 running on my latop and wanted to add KDE 3.1 from the Mandrake Club. I used the comamnd: urpmi.addmedia, then the club address with my club username and password. This is the output: Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off. 10:43:37 (152.66 KB/

Re: [newbie] urpmi help needed

2003-01-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 12:30 pm, Can Baytan wrote: > Finally I made my CD II for ML 9.0 ok, but I tried urmi.update -a didn't > work to update, to make story short. > > I need my all 3 CD's shown on software update, what is the command for > it? > > Thanks in advance. > > Can Baytan. To get all

[newbie] urpmi help needed

2003-01-19 Thread Can Baytan
Finally I made my CD II for ML 9.0 ok, but I tried urmi.update -a didn't work to update, to make story short. I need my all 3 CD's shown on software update, what is the command for it? Thanks in advance. Can Baytan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandra

[newbie] urpmi problem

2003-01-16 Thread rajukv
Hi, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop. Since I have a dial-up connection I used my friend's broadband connection and downloaded the updates to /var/cache/urpmi/rpms But when I run # urpmi --update --auto-select Can't call method "arch" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select?

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 06:04, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: > > > > By no means does removing Timidity deny your output of MIDI. It can be > > reinstalled at a later date and time. Nothing to worry about hometeam. > > I faced the same issue as Angus. Urpmi refused to upgrade KDE until it > uninstalled ti

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select?

2003-01-15 Thread Angus Auld
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:00, Angus Auld wrote: > > Greetings, I was just updating my system with the latest bunch of updates from Mdk >(BIG bunch). I installed a few packages, and then decided it would be simpler to just >use the "urpmi --auto-select" command, and go to bed. > > When I issued

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select?

2003-01-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:00, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, I was just updating my system with the latest bunch of updates from Mdk >(BIG bunch). I installed a few packages, and then decided it would be simpler to just >use the "urpmi --auto-select" command, and go to bed. > When I issued the com

[newbie] urpmi --auto-select?

2003-01-14 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I was just updating my system with the latest bunch of updates from Mdk (BIG bunch). I installed a few packages, and then decided it would be simpler to just use the "urpmi --auto-select" command, and go to bed. When I issued the command however, urpmi informed me that two packages hav

Re: [newbie] urpmi errors when adding sources

2003-01-09 Thread Pilagá
El Jue 09 Ene 2003 20:04, David escribió: > this happens whenever I try to addmedia, update media or remove media. > Looking closer, the synthesis file it is trying to examine is for a source > that no longer exists. Perhaps the question now is, How do I tell urpmi > that these sources no longer ex

Re: [newbie] urpmi errors when adding sources

2003-01-09 Thread David
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 9:49 pm, David wrote: > > When ever I try to add a source to urpmi from the cli (as su), I keep > > getting the following errors: > > unable to inspect list file for "update source", medium ignored > > ... > > unable to u

[newbie] urpmi errors when adding sources

2003-01-09 Thread David
When ever I try to add a source to urpmi from the cli (as su), I keep getting the following errors: unable to inspect list file for "update source", medium ignored ... unable to uncompress synthesis file at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/urpm.pm line 869. Can anyone tell me what this means? I g

Re: [newbie] urpmi error (was installed/installable...)

2003-01-06 Thread Angus Auld
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:30 -0600 > "Richard Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u)" into > > account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake > > Linux 9.0 (ftp1u)] exists > > Can't call method "arch" on an undef

Re: [newbie] urpmi error (was installed/installable...)

2003-01-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:07:30 -0600 "Richard Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u)" into > account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake > Linux 9.0 (ftp1u)] exists > Can't call method "arch" on an undefined value at >

[newbie] urpmi error (was installed/installable...)

2003-01-05 Thread Richard Babcock
Greetings, I've been following the installed/installable thread between Angus and Charles and got the following error when I tried urpmi --auto-select: unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u)" into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (f

Re: [newbie] urpmi and autofs

2002-12-17 Thread Milos Prudek
To deal with the issue of browsing to a non-existant directory under /mnt (until it is accessed), I use a symbolic link in the root directory, eg. /cdrom which points to /mnt/cdrom. Hi John, I tried that but there are still issues with "eject: unable to find or open device for: `automount(pid14

Re: [newbie] urpmi and autofs

2002-12-16 Thread John McQuillen
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 20:26, Milos Prudek wrote: > Hi, > > Instead of supermount, I use autofs. It works great. > > Except for urpmi and rpmdrake. > > Both urpmi and rpmdrake fail with similar error message about "device > automount(pid1474) not found". pid1474 is the PID of automount process.

[newbie] urpmi and autofs

2002-12-16 Thread Milos Prudek
Hi, Instead of supermount, I use autofs. It works great. Except for urpmi and rpmdrake. Both urpmi and rpmdrake fail with similar error message about "device automount(pid1474) not found". pid1474 is the PID of automount process. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrak

RE: [newbie] urpmi

2002-12-11 Thread Tony S. Sykes
esday, December 11, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:54, David Robertson wrote: > For a variety of reasons (and I won't bore you with the details) I > have to reinstall LM 9.0. However, I have set up the software > manager

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