baudolino Posted November 23, 2002 Report Share Posted November 23, 2002 Rpmdrake 9.0 accessed as KDE menu ---> Configuration --->Packaging --->Install Software. I got this error message "Installation failed, some files are missing. You may want to update your sources database." I tried (as root) urmpi.update -a . Same error. How do I update the source database? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baudolino Posted November 23, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2002 I succeeded installing the rpm that I wanted by setting up a ftp media in urpmi and installing from there. It looks like I am unable to install from my own installation cds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted November 24, 2002 Report Share Posted November 24, 2002 Sounds more like you were having dependiencies problems and when you used urpmi it got the dependiencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted November 24, 2002 Report Share Posted November 24, 2002 I have the same problem but if I uprmi the package by name it installs just fine. :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 24, 2002 Report Share Posted November 24, 2002 I tried (as root) urmpi.update -a . Same error. from man urpmi.update NAME urpmi.update - Updates packages list for specified medias SYNOPSIS urpmi.update [options] [<names>] DESCRIPTION urpmi.update scans all the <names> media to update their packages list. Usefull for ftp location for example. <names> is a list of name you first told to urpmi.addmedia OPTIONS --wget use wget only for downloading distant files. By default curl is used if available or wget instead. --curl use curl only for downloading distant files. By default curl is used if available or wget instead. -a Select all media that are not using a removable device to update them. -c Clean /var/cache/urpmi/headers directory on exit. -d Force complete computation of (not used anymore) /var/lib/urpmi/depslist.ordered file. -f Force rebuild of hdlist files or base files (/var/lib/urpmi/dep- slist.ordered, /var/lib/urpmi/provides and /var/lib/urpmi/compss). You were telling urpmi not to update you CD's. If you look at /var/lb/urpmi, you'll see something like;list.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) list.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2) list.International CD (x86) (cdrom3) list.Texstar list.contrib list.cooker list.plf list.update_source so if you want to update CD 1, run urpmi.update Installation CD 1 if Texstar urpmi.update Texstar Another thing to look at is /var/lib/rpm when no rpm process is running and see if there are any _db.0 files. If there are, delete them and run rpm --rebuilddb man urpmi man urpmi.addmedia man urpmi.update man urpmi.removemedia man autoirpm man gurpmi man urpmf (*use this*) man urpmq man rpmdrake man rpm In X run mcc>Software Management>Software Sources Manager. You could always remove the CD sources and add them again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baudolino Posted November 29, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2002 Thanks for your help! I successfully updated the source database for my installation CDs. One more question. I was unable to find the manual page for gurpmi, autoirpm and rpmdrake. [baudolino]$ man rpmdrake No manual entry for rpmdrake [baudolino]$ "info rpmdrake"' sends me to the top directory of info. Please let me know where to find these manuals. baudolino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 29, 2002 Report Share Posted November 29, 2002 You're welcome! I don't have a man for gurpmi or autoirpm either. I got that from man urpmi. I don't know that there is one for rpmdrake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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