Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 I'm trying to add some URPMI sources. so I do urpmi.removemedia -a to erase the old (Installation CDs) then I do the easy urpmi config, one line at a time. The first time all went well, but each time I wanted to do an urpmi, it gave me an error saying that it was outdated. so I redo a urpmi.remove media -a, then reinstall...i did it like 10 times and each time it gave me that the contrib was outdated, or something like that. I tried many servers, nothing..I'm trying again, but I doubt it will be different than the others...someone can help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 (edited) ok now the only thing that I got when I try to do a search is: medium "contrib" uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method How can I fix that? Edited March 1, 2004 by Ghil Vertefeuille Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 i'm not entirely sure, but i get that sometimes too. some of the contrib sites can be buggy, or just as the message is telling you, they can be out of date & the hdlists are no good. i'd suggest adding non contrib sources first, then try different contrib sources last until you find one that works for you. might i suggest the contrib source right here in the forum dowloads section? that always works fine for me. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 ok I'll try that :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 (edited) ok I got the contrib here but it gives me the same answer: Contrib isn't up to date, trying a replacement method...etc... what can I do about that (it sill doesn't give me what's in Contrib :S) Edited March 2, 2004 by Ghil Vertefeuille Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 You can still grab pkgs from contrib, I promise. It's just a (false) error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 it doesn't install anything (installation failed because these files where not present) argh :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 instead of using CLI, just for shits & giggles try adding the contrib source using GUI. open MCC (Mandrake Control Center)->software->sources manager->add. when the "add" dialogue box opens up, choose the "ftp" option button at the top for your source type. copy the ftp source location address from your browser into the location address box in the add dialogue box. for example, the ftp contrib source from the forum here would be....... ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/Mandrake/stable/Contrib/ that's what you'd copy & paste. give the source a name of your own choice in the "name" dialogue box. leave the hdlist & all other options blank. click "save". it should add the source, build the hdlist automatically, & add it to your source list. when it's done, click "save" to exit software sources manager. if that method doesn't work, then i'm running out of ideas. :unsure: Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 The original urpmi and mandrake tool files were buggy in 9.2. Have you updated those files? If not, that's your problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 yeah, that sounds like the unupdated 9.2 bug to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 I've found all the contrib sites give hdlist errors so I downloaded the entire contrib tree and tried to make a new hdlist. I got an error relating to one file; I think it was one of the kernels. It's been a while since I did this. When I deleted that file, I could create an hdlist w/o the error message. The bottom line is there appears to be one file on the contrib sites that is causing the problem. If you delete it, you can make a hdlist that doesn't give those annoying hdlist update errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 I didn't update :unsure: I'll check back after updating, thanks for your answers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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