mdemers883

I am now a Ubuntu user and I love it so far :)

quick/easy install, apt-get is awesome, and it runs quick

I had the same problem (still do) with the bad signatures. It can be quite a pain to hit the "y" key for hundreds of packages, trust me I know :lol: Well, here is what I do before I update my system.

I do the standard "urpmi.upate -a" to update my package list.

then I do a "urpmi --force --auto-select"

that will automatically answer "yes" to all the confirmations, works like a charm for me :)

Mark

I have mine located under System/Monitoring

Was working fine last night, havent' done any major changes except for install packages via urpmi last night. Just tried to do a

urpmi.update -a

and I got the following error:

Can't locate URPM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm line 17.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22.

firefox has always worked flawlessly for me....but now I"m using 1.0 RC1 and it loads a majority of pages SLOW as hell...hopefully the new release (comes out tomorrow) will fix that.

I see you like xmms, I used to use it. Have you tried beep media player? It's based on xmms.

Well, I've been using proxad.net cooker for my urpmi needs and has worked fine thus far..till I did a full system upgrade urpmi --auto-select

After that completed I am now up to mandrake 10.1 and now my urpmi cannot update....I get errors of it not being able to find teh "hdlist" anymore. Anyone else having this problem with proxad?

Mark

urpmi --force --auto-select

thanks man, I'll definately do that next time :D I'm nearing package 800 now and I'm hoping it comes to an end soon cause it's driving me nuts.

so it would be:

 urpmi --force--auto-select

that is the correct syntax right?

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/urpmi.php3

       --force
             assumes yes on all questions.

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:lol: oh man, I definately wish I would've know that...I"m still entering "y" and hitting enter and I'm on package 696

How would I go about playing wmv files, is it possible in linux witout needing WINE or anything like that. Or, like when I want to view trailers on the apple site, can I do that in linux...is there some sort of quicktime substitute. And, one last question, when I'm viewing a video in a browser ( I use firefox) what do I need to add to firefox to play the videos?

Sorry if this seems very trivial but I have no clue about this stuff just yet so I don't even know where to start.

Mark

ah, that makes sense now, does that cooker key apply to the cooker and cooker_contrib both? IF so I'll be glad to add them ASAP considering on package 375 and I must have had to answer "y" to at least 350 of them :lol: definately blows after a while.

Mark

still installing :( on package 223 and I bet at least 200 of them have had that error message where I've had to hit "y" and enter to continue

So after I update my sources and go for a "urpmi --auto-select" things start installing just fine...then, all my packages come with an error of "invalid signature" and "missing key" and it asks me "y/n" to install them. Bvc has been helping me with setting up my urpmi for the past few days (huge help I might add) and I"m using the same cooker soruces as him on my fresh mandrake 10 install:

cooker

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/main

cooker_contrib

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/contrib/i586

plf

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/10.1

I"m using the same sources as bvc (he gave me the sources) and he hasn't had any of the errors that I'm having. So, I'm wondering if someone else may have run into the same probs I"m having and what they did to fix it.

Thanks

Mark

not sure if it's cause I"m using cooker for my packages, but most of the time when I use urpmi to get some packages I get a lot of "invalid signature" and "missing key" errors. Is it cause I"m using cooker or does it have something else going on?

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Li...f/mandrake/10.1

works for me, but it's 10.1....it does have a 10 though. Have you tried it?

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changed the path to 10.0 ....saved my ass again, as usual bvc, thanks for always helping me

also I did a

urpmi.update -a

as well as

urpmi --auto-select

after that I ran I restarted and logged back in....still using gnome 2.4 :( any ideas why that didnt update?

things seem to be going decent..but for the life of me, I can't get a plf mirror that works :(

did you scale it down or is that a screenshot straight from your computer?

the shot is at 1024x768, not "Resolution: 1152x864 24bpp" you say. That would make things look bigger. Apart from that, your gnome icons are fairly big, but they're designed that way.

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I think the screenshot was taken at 1024x768 and I had fiddled aroudn with more afterwards and set things to 1152x864. I'll mess aroudn with gaim when I get home like you mentioned to see if I can shrink that baby down. Hopefully I'll be able to upgrade gnome tonight as well :D Thanks for all the help so far

it's best just to do

urpmi --auto-select

 

If there's anything you do not want upgraded, put them in /etc/urpmi/skip.list

I currently have in there

kernel

kernel-source

lilo

grub

initscripts

 

but put whatever you want...urpmi should workout everything

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Ah, I think I see what you are saying. Doing "urpmi --auto-select" is going to grab everything that can be updated...except for the stuff that I specifically list in the skip.list file that I don't want upgraded. Thanks for the explanation bvc, helpful as always

theres a setting in gaim to make the icons smaller - in preferences uncheck show buddy icons

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That should help that a bit...but it still seems like everything else that has to do with my desktop/windows and such seems bigger than it should be for the resolution I have it set at. I'm not sure if it's because XFdrake is seeing my video as plain ol "radeon" instead of say "radeon 9500"

I'm new to this so I'm not full confident in what I'm doing. Any ideas of what I may need to do?

whenever doing something big like that, especially gnome, do not be logged into gnome. Either be in another de/wm or better...init 3. The do, if you haven't already, and want to be sure your sources are updated

urpmi.update -a

urpmi --auto-select

but that will get more than gnome if other pkgs are available.

 

urpmi gnome-session

will get you gnome, or at least the gnome core.

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But neither of those options would get me a full gnome system, just core? Would it be better for me to download all the rpms via ftp and install them in init 3 ?

been using fox since 0.8 definately my favorite browser by far

mmmm....definately might need to download that soon

I tried resizing gaim...that's as small as I could crop it :(