phunni Posted December 22, 2002 Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 I recently installed 9.0 on an older machine (P133, 32Mb RAM) using CDs, but now it seems like my CD drive is busted. I still need to install a few apps - but I can't use the CDs. I figured I could just find an ftp mirror with all the mandrake packages (more than just CD1 I hope) and add that as a urpmi source. Trouble is - I can't find any mirrors. I went to the Mandrake download site and found a suitable mirror, but I couldn't figure out how to add it as a source - didn't seem like this was what it was meant for... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted December 22, 2002 Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 Try something like this: urpmi.addmedia --update ftp_france ftp://ftp.lip6.fr:/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz see man urpmi.addmedia for further info and ofcourse edit your system crontab with something like this: 30 3 * * mon /usr/sbin/urpmi.update ftp_france ...to update the sources (which is useful if instead of the CURRENT distro you add the COOKER source of rpm packages) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted December 22, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 thanks - got it sorted. One question out of interest though Once I had added the source - I went to install samba on my machine. For some reason ther ewere 3 different samba-server packages that I could haev installed - two with the same version! Why would this be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted December 22, 2002 Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 I'm not sure (as I dont use urpmi), but it could be due because you didn't call urpmi with the update option, so instead of using the 'update' sources your urpmi was looking for all the available sources... again I'm not sure of this. I guess that you should do urpmi --update package even if "package" is not previously installed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted December 22, 2002 Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 i'm guessing that one of those versions is from the install cd source and the other one is from the ftp source you just set up. i can't recall if you can tell the source repository of an rpm with urpmi, but i know you can see it if you run rpmdrake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted December 22, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 Since upgrading to 9.0 from 8.2 - I've found rpmdrake to be a much weaker product. I certainly don't know how to find out the source in the newest version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted December 22, 2002 Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 IMHO you should go to /var/lib/urpmi/ and see which are the sources that you have; then remove those which you think that are useless (ie, old or duplicated sources) with urpmi.removemedia (see it's man page). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted December 22, 2002 Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 I have totally abandoned this way of updating in favour of direct download from the mirrors. The one I use is http://ftp.sunet.se in Sweden which is ususally quite fast, even when the Swedes are awake. The advantage is that you can save the updates or upgrades in your home directory so if you are forced to reinstall you do not need to repeat the process over again. You can chose from mirrors anywhere in the world that give you the fastest transfers. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted December 22, 2002 Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 I have totally abandoned this way of updating in favour of direct download from the mirrors I never started I just tried a couple of times and I disliked it a lot! The one I use is http://ftp.sunet.se in Sweden which is ususally quite fast, even when the Swedes are awake. The advantage is that you can save the updates or upgrades in your home directory so if you are forced to reinstall you do not need to repeat the process over again. You can chose from mirrors anywhere in the world that give you the fastest transfers. Counterspy Yes, that's one of the reasons. Others are (IMHO) versatility, speed (around 10 fold faster), and more control in what you are doing. (also making a couple of scripts to help you on that task isn't harder) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesea Posted December 25, 2002 Report Share Posted December 25, 2002 Since upgrading to 9.0 from 8.2 - I've found rpmdrake to be a much weaker product. I certainly don't know how to find out the source in the newest version i think if you right click on the description window, you can select to have a more detailed description and it'll show the source, changelog, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 25, 2002 Report Share Posted December 25, 2002 Gnorpm (gnorpm) has a Web Find feature that's setup for rpmfind.net. Gnorpm will check for deps, and query, and verify as well. aside: I came from 8.1 to 9.0 so I'm lovin urpmi. Haven't had any probs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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