spunky424 Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 just converted to mandrakelinux 10.0 and i'm getting use to how everythign runs.i just installed my nvidia driver wondering if there are any OS updates that i should download..and if so how do i do it and where to get them? i basically jsu loaded the OS instaleld gaim, and my nvidia driver and a couple of OS games..anything else i should look for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 (edited) welcome aboard :D go to Easyurpmi and follow its instructions. it will let you set up some mirrors with security updates, bugfixes etc... and some special things (like themes, mozilla-firefox,..). which one you "should" download depends on your sys-xonfig, but most of the time, a "urpmi --auto-select" in the console as root will do the job. :) Edited September 24, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 You should always do security updates. Bug fixes and normal updates are a little troublesome. In fact, I recommend only using security updates, and allowing the otheres to be around a week or two before installing them. Mandrake is a little bleeding edge, and stuff can temporarily break sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spunky424 Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 what should i use to update? the linux updater or urpmi? which one is better or easier..lol. and i'm trying to get winex to work on linux so that i can get steam(counterstrike) but it stops at make depend...kinda stuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 Go ahead and use the updater in MCC (Mandrake Control Center) Learn how to use urpmi later. Most of us linux types learn the command line, urpmi, because it is qucker. MCC uses urpmi as a backend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spunky424 Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 do they both do the same thing? i jus did the urpmi thing what does it exactly do? right now i'm in the konsole and its downloading stuff what do i do when its over? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 They do the exact same thing. But if you did the listed instructions above, it will update every changed file. It's automatic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spunky424 Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 ok lemme get this straight sorry for the stupidity...so if i use the easy urpmi it will automatically update everything? when i type in step three? or do i still need to do mandrake update? thanx alot man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 If you configured your source (that what you were doing on the websight) for just security, and then other ones for updates, you can stipulate what to do, just like Mandrake control center. Otherwise, that command updates every available changed file on the ftp server you told it to look at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spunky424 Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 question right now i have mandrake 10.0 if i wanted mandrake 10.1 community could i jus upgrade the files through that urmpi site by selecting community 10.1? and is there any difference between that and 10.0? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 My current 10.1 CE is an upgrade from 10.1 rc1, and I did it exactly as you are describing. There is no difference, except that when you install other stuff, you will ahve to be on line for the depends to correctly install as well. I'm getting the 10.1 cd's right now, so that I have them in case of an emergency. I play, I break! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 some stuff may break going from 10.0 to 10.1 via urpmi; kdmrc needs to be replaced with kdmrc.rpmnew and you may need to remove the devfs=mount section from your lilo.conf. those are the two biggues. technically, rpmdrake does not use urpmi as a backend. rpmdrake never invokes an urpmi command. They are both interfaces to the perl-URPM backend and share common database and configuration files. to answer one of spunky's questions: running the steps at easyurpmi will define the new sources and update the list of packages they contain, but it *won't* actually download and update any packages. After doing the easyurpmi steps you need to either do "urpmi --auto-select" from the command line, or use the graphical tool's "all upgradeable packages" filter (well, it's called something like that, don't remember precisely). urpmi --auto-select will update all packages for which an update is available. The graphical tool has a view which shows all the packages for which updates are available and you can then pick which to update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spunky424 Posted September 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 some stuff may break going from 10.0 to 10.1 via urpmi; kdmrc needs to be replaced with kdmrc.rpmnew and you may need to remove the devfs=mount section from your lilo.conf. those are the two biggues. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> how do i fix those issues? sorry i'm really a newb and jus getting the hang of all this linux stuff..thanks alot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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