[4di]

i've instaled PClinuxOS that look like Mandriva2007 and a theme of Windows Vista , an I've searched for urpmi , but is missing .

i have Synaptic Software Manager, but I would like to use urpmi....

how do I install urpmi . (i can't find it with Synaptic Software Manager)


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[Greg2]

4di, on Mar 5 2007, 04:32 AM, said:

how do I install urpmi . (i can't find it with Synaptic Software Manager)

I've never used PClinuxOS, but I don't think you can install urpmi... and 'make it work'. You can however use 'apt-get install' from the cli.

[4di]

Greg2, on Mar 5 2007, 03:51 PM, said:

You can however use 'apt-get install' from the cli.

what is "cli" pls.... i will try to use apt-get install.

thx.

[Greg2]

command line interface :)

[4di]

apt-get update than apt-get install and this is what i get :

# apt-get update
Get:1 http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2004 release [1935B]
Fetched 1935B in 4s (408B/s)
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2004/os pkglist
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2004/os release
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2004/updates pkglist
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2004/updates release
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2004/texstar pkglist
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2004/texstar release
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2004/93 pkglist
Hit http://distro.ibiblio.org pclinuxos/2004/93 release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done

# apt-get install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 183 not upgraded.


why is this "183 not upgraded." ?

[Greg2]

4di, on Mar 5 2007, 10:05 AM, said:

# apt-get install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 183 not upgraded.


why is this "183 not upgraded." ?

You didn't give apt-get anything to install?

It's

apt-get install name-of-package

replace name-of-package with whatever you want to install.
Or you can do:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

to upgrade your system.

[pmpatrick]

As previously noted, pclos doesn't use urpmi. IIRC it uses apt for rpm instead and manges software installation through synaptic, just like on debian based distros. You can still install rpms on pclos since it is not really a debian apt/dpkg system but is using apt for rpm. From the command line you run as root:

# rpm -ivh <package name>

Unlike urpmi, the above command will not automatically download any package dependencies. If there are unmet dependencies, the package will refuse to install.

[scarecrow]

PCLinuxOS uses aptitude/synaptic, urpmi wasn't an option from the first time I used it (maybe four years ago).
If you have picked PCLOS because it looks like windows Vista, I can assure you you've picked the wrong distro...

[mandri]

[[quote]what is "cli" pls.... i will try to use apt-get install.
Why not just use synaptic if you don't know what a cli is?Synaptic is a front end(GUI) for apt-get.

[Ixthusdan]

You should use the method that comes with the system. Apt works great. I have PCLinuxOS installed, and it works just fine.
If you want to install a program that is not on a particular distro's list, the best thing to do is compile it youself. You will need to look at the readme files to get the depends, and even then the output of the compiler will tell you of failures, which simply means more depends. If it sounds complicated, it is. But it can be done on any distro. But check their repositories first.

[4di]

I like to use apt-get more than synaptic ...

thank you all for answers , now I know what I should do ....
1.apt-get update
2.apt-get upgrade

and for install apt-get install name-of-package

[ianw1974]

There is also:

apt-get dist-upgrade

for kernel updates, and other more serious upgrades. You can also use aptitude which is wrapped around apt-get. Also allows search functionality and viewing package info.

aptitude install packagename
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
aptitude dist-upgrade
aptitude search your-text-here
aptitude show packagename

[SoulSe]

4di, on Mar 6 2007, 12:32 PM, said:

I like to use apt-get more than synaptic ...

thank you all for answers , now I know what I should do ....
1.apt-get update
2.apt-get upgrade

and for install apt-get install name-of-package

Synaptic is just a GUI interface for Apt. It's a better package manager than urpmi, so enjoy :)

EDIT: I've marked this thread solved, although we haven't really told you how to install urpmi in PCLOS, which is what you asked. But since it isn't easily possible and you've figured out the native package manager I guess we're done here.

[4di]

Quote

EDIT: I've marked this thread solved, although we haven't really told you how to install urpmi in PCLOS, which is what you asked. But since it isn't easily possible and you've figured out the native package manager I guess we're done here.

This thread is really solved and now I work with PClinuxOS.

Thank you all for help. :thumbs: