Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 06 March 2004 1:02 pm, Thinker pondered and enlightened us with: > I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 > to full 10.0 release status. > > My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. > > I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several ot

Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-07 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:50 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Is this documented somewhere? I never knew before how to get to console from the graphical greeter. Maybe this should be in Twiki? This is a very basic feature of Linux nad has been in exitence since forever. maybe i

Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:50 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: > Is this documented somewhere?  I never knew before how to get to console > from the graphical greeter.  Maybe this should be in Twiki? This is a very basic feature of Linux nad has been in exitence since forever. maybe it is so basic th

Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-07 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Greg Meyer wrote: I do it in runlevel 5 all the time from the command line. Log out of KDE and then when you see th egraphical login greeter, hit ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a console and do your urpmi --auto-select from there. When done, hit alt-F7 to get back to the greeter. Restart the xserver

Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Mar 2004 21:02, Thinker wrote: > I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 > to full 10.0 release status. > > My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. > > I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are > running. Shoul

Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 March 2004 04:02 pm, Thinker wrote: > I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 > to full 10.0 release status. > > My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. > > I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are > running.

[newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-06 Thread Thinker
I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE I

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-25 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 25, 2003 05:31 am, Ken Walker wrote: > Many thanks > > Ken I guess that means I didn't screw up the destructions this time? (-; You're very welcome Ken. Enjoy. Cheers; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Co

RE: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-25 Thread Ken Walker
Many thanks Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charlie M. Sent: 23 September 2003 3:34:pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 23, 2003 06:06 am, Ken

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-23 Thread RichardA
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:01:19 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is "--update". I apologize for the mistype in my example. > > I don't think it would do anything at all if you typed in --updates. > I believe it would exit and tell you that --updates is not a valid > option.

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-23 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 23, 2003 06:06 am, Ken Walker wrote: Hi Ken; Before anything else, open a super user mode terminal, or in a root console, type urpmi --help. You'll see the flags, syntax and what commands are available and what they do. > All i get when

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
RichardA wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:20:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The "--update" switch tells urpmi to update the system from the *update urpmi source only*. Examples: "urpmi --updates --auto-select" will update everything from the *updates* urpmi source. "urpm

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-21 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: "RichardA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 02:47 Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:20:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-21 Thread RichardA
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:20:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "--update" switch tells urpmi to update the system from the > *update urpmi source only*. > > Examples: > > "urpmi --updates --auto-select" will update everything from the > *updates* urpmi source. > > "urpmi

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-19 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: "RichardA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 23:40 Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select > I don't understand the last part of your message. What is significant > about the --up

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-19 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
RichardA wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:05:46 +0300, Phazeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are talking about Mandrake 9.1 then the answer is simple - your rpm db just broke up. It's pretty simple to fix it though. First you have to delete the old rpm db: # rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.* then just r

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-19 Thread RichardA
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:05:46 +0300, Phazeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are talking about Mandrake 9.1 then the answer is simple - your > rpm db just broke up. It's pretty simple to fix it though. First you > have to delete the old rpm db: > # rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.* > then just rebuild

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-18 Thread Phazeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 September 2003 21:25, RichardA wrote: > The ssh exploit reminded me to update. I did "urpmi.update -a", which > went fine. > Then I did "urpmi -v --auto-select". It wanted to download 300MB +, so I > let it. Then a message about bad sign

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