SwiftDeath Posted April 25, 2004 Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 (edited) I currently am running Mandrake 10.0 community. Am I missing out on anything by not switching to official? Is their a way just to upgrade from community to official? Is official any easier to use or support and run games better? Wheres a good fast free place to download official? Thanks, SwiftDeath Edited April 25, 2004 by SwiftDeath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 25, 2004 Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 If you updated your community version with all of the updates up until the week before the release, you have the same distro as OE. So, no, there are no major changes, except that the OE is indeed very stable and relatively bug free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted April 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 (edited) Does RPMDRAKE install all the updates? And their seems to be like 5 billion updates.... I don't know which one to install. Should I just install the ones it already has selected for me? Edited April 25, 2004 by SwiftDeath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted April 25, 2004 Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 Assuming you have your sources all setup, you can type urpmi --auto-select and it will select and install all you need. Then go back and look at whether anything is remaining.. Remember, if you install software, you want to check in case there is a related update. The OE release has all these updates already on the CD, you don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 25, 2004 Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 Does RPMDRAKE install all the updates? And their seems to be like 5 billion updates.... I don't know which one to install. Should I just install the ones it already has selected for me? rpmdrake is a gui frontend to urpmi. Unfortunately you can't use it to --auto --auto-select for some dumb reason, just like you can't tell it to keep the rpms as with urpmi with the --noclean option. Once you've set up your sources to point to an OE mirror instead of a CE (which 'was' cooker) it's best to logout of X and go to console for the urpmi --auto --auto-select Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted April 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Is urpmi already installed on my box? How do I get up my sources? (Pardon the extremely dumb question), How do I logout of x? I got my computer set to a graphical boot and last time I turned that off, I couldn't turn my computer on because I didn't know the command to start x free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 urpmi is installed by default. Head over to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php to configure your sources. It's fairly self explanatory. Just check what you want, choose your mirror(s) and copy and paste the output into a console (as root) Logging out of X is a bit more tricky. You can turn it off in MCC like you did before then when you reboot and get a prompt that looks like: [user @ localhost user]$ just type startx to start X. :lol: I, personally, have never had a problem running the urpmi --auto-select from within X (in a root console, of course) but others may have. The other way to kill X is a bit more tricky. Log out of your DE or press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X. Then press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root. Then type service dm stop to kill your login manager. Then do your urpmi --auto-select to update your system (also a good time to install nvidia drivers). When you're all done, type service dm start then logout. I believe you then press Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to your familar login screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted May 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2004 Their did the update, it seems to work besides the fact i think its installing packages i already got installed from earlier when I tried it with the GUI updater. Hmmm. I guess I'll just let overdo itself... It can do harm I guess and maybe I forgot something. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 3, 2004 Report Share Posted May 3, 2004 Some package name changes are quite subtle. package-whatever.3.4-mdk4.i586.rpm might change to package-whatever.3.4-mdk5.i586.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted May 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2004 Hmmm.. that went over apache and now I can't get it too start. I get the following errors. Failed to start apache : Starting httpd-perl: [ OK ] Starting httpd2: httpd2: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName [FAILED] Btw: will webmin automatically check these new changes and know that the files got overwritten. Or do I have to do something else? Please be very newbie like, cause thats what I am :D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted May 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2004 Hmmm.... If I just downloaded the 4th iso. cd when it was available for download... Would that work with me 3 CE cds and make a full official distribution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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