Thanks for the suggestion, however, when I tried to uninstall some packages
in order to upgrade them (cups, rpmdrake, rpm, rpmtools), a box appeared
saying that all these other packages would be removed to satisfy
dependencies. I clicked on ok, and software manager closed without
Well this email wanted me to use the Software Manager.
I tried it on the list of Security updates that I had
downloaded. Software Manager did not work it hung,
tried the Package Manager, it hung (would not work)
tried the MandrakeUpdate, it hung (would not work),
tried rpm -Uvh package name it
WHOA!
from the content of the last couple of emails on this I get the impression
that you have mandrake 7.2 and are trying to update to 8.0 packages
Simply forget it! You cannot use mandrakeUpdate in that fashion. Way WAY
too much delta, plus incompatible binaries and libraries.
8.0 is
You need to remove the resources you do not want to use from the lists if you
want the update to work properly. Then you must specify the external source
precisely.
There are very few updates available as yet, but I would suspect that if it
is aaying already installed on packages defnitely
I use Mandrake Update as a reference tool only. It has never once
removed the previously existing version of anything I have updated.
What I do is open a terminal window and login as su, then run Mandrake
Update to see what needs an upgrade; I open a browser window and go to
whichever mirror
