Oh Mandrake Control Center, Where Art Thou?

[Guest kirandip_sidhu]

I have encounter a problem upgrading from 9.2 to

10.0. My mandrake control center has gone missing!

I click on the desktop; it will ask me for the

password, load it up and then for some reason

disappear. I am trying to get to the packages manager. I can get drakconf from the terminal,

and have tried update-menus-v.

This is problem number one, problem number two (these may be

related), every time I use a terminal this message

is always displayed:

 

locale: cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale:

Invalid argument

 

An identical message will also appear, but with

LC_ALL.

 

Whenever I load up software from the terminal I

will get a list of LC_ . Just before the software

loads up a line appears with something about perl

and using C. Please help.

[devries]

You'll have to use the console then and not start X. Add the update source to your stable of urpmi repositories with urpmi.addmedia and then try installing the updates with urpmi --auto-select.

 

If that doen't work you can always do a reinstall instead of an update (just make sure you don't reformat your /home.

[Guest kirandip_sidhu]

Sorry I think the way I phrased the question was poor. The upgrade was successful. The only problem is the missing control center and that LC. I should have also mentioned that I am quite new to Linux.

[tyme]

you did the dreaded "upgrade" option didn't you?

 

thou shalt learn, that thou shalt only do fresh installs, and thou shalt not use the upgrade option!

 

but seriously...upgrade is bad. mandrake needs to do a lot of work to fix the upgrade option. for now, I suggest doing a fresh install (it's a good idea to make a seperate partition for /home so that you can keep all your important files).

 

Now, if you don't want to do that, here's your other option:

go to a virtual terminal (ctrl+alt+F1 will do) and login as root. do the commands you get from this page to add an update source, to update the packages. then run:

urpmi --auto-select

I believe is the correct command.

[Qchem]

Try manually installing the mcc rpm from the cds.

[tyme]

Try manually installing the mcc rpm from the cds.

I think he'd be better off just adding and update source via the command line and updating, because there have been quite a few updates to the various mcc tools ;)

[Qchem]

I think he'd be better off just adding and update source via the command line and updating, because there have been quite a few updates to the various mcc tools

 

Agreed, I haven't been keeping up with Mandrakes security announcements.

[Guest kirandip_sidhu]

Thanks everyone, I tried urmi.addmedia and it worked. I thinking about writing a book about restoring the control center