So_it_goes

Hi

Thanks for the welcome and help !

I've chosen what I think is a stable source ( ftp.sunet ),

sync'ed or not, is there any way to tell ?

By the way I'm using KDE.

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Update problems :

Experimented with

System->Configuration->Other->LocaleDrake( System )

I've updated through Media Manager like this :

1) Remove every entry in the Media Manager list.

2) Then add 'Official_updates' then add 'Distribution Sources'.

Now I have these 7 entries:in Media Manager

- update_source

- main

- main_updates

- Main (Official2007.0-1)

- Main Updates (Official2007.0-2)

- Contrib (Official2007.0-3)

- Contrib Updates (Official2007.0-4)

This seems to work.

Any comments , do I need PLF ?

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JAVA/JRE problems :

It seems that this is the way it is.

When I searched for the problem, I found that I'm not

the only one with this problem.

Have to manually install the java package.

Thanks for the link arctic.

There are many uninstalled ”java” packages, but I can't find

any specific package that I think is ”the one” I need.

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Offtopic :

Shouldn't these java packages get installed when I choose to install a database ?

When I run the easy urpmi, it sets up the list that I'll get when I run Media Manager -> Add ?

Comments ?

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Hi

This is my first post and of course a few questions.

Found this forum a lot easier to access than the official site.

Strangley they haven't any info about this site on mandriva.org !?

I got this link from another forum.

Installed Mandriva 2007 i586,no big problems.

Updated bugs and security patches with MandrivaUpdate.

Everything works Ok until I tried OpenOffice.org Database.

I couldn't get Openoffice,org database to create a database it reported

"OpenOffice.org requires a java runtime environment"

Used MandrivaUpdate to search for a jre package,

but I didn't find any .

Then I made 'the mistake' of trying easyurpmi.

Executed the commands, everything went OK, but when I start MandrivaUpdate

I get this error

"A fatal error has occured: It's impossible to retrive the list of new packages from the media 'contrib_updates'...."

My guess is that when easyurpmi says that you should remove the media(urpmi.removemedia -a )

is where the trouble starts.

Question 1:

How can I either restore the updates to the old setup or get it working with the new setup ?

Question 2 :

How can I get OpenOffice.org database to work( install a JRE package ?).

Thankful for any help

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