Kylotan Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 I run the Update utility, it gets to 'Please wait, updating media...', then it brings up a box saying "It's impossible to retrieve the list of new packages (etc)". I remove the current update_source, then run the Update util again. It brings up a list of update_source mirrors, I try the next one, I get the exact same error. For every mirror. I have no problem accessing the internet in any other way. Http, ftp, curl, wget, instant messengers all appear to be working fine. I can't see any obvious clues in /var/log as to what's going on. I'm using 10CE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 You will need to set up your URPMI sources to keep CE up to date. Mandrake does not provide update_sources for a community edition. There is already an active thread about this exact title -- I just can't seem to find it. Try the search engine up top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ , set your version to 10.0CE, and set up media for "main" and "contrib". These media are updated on a rolling basis and contain security updates. From the command line, urpmi --auto-select -v will install all available updates. (Before doing this, do urpmi.update -a to update your local copy of the list of all the files on the remote server). Alternatively, you could set your version to 10.0OE, define media for "main", "contribs" and an update source, and use MandrakeUpdate to get updates; then you'd be running a normal copy of 10.0OE, more or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylotan Posted October 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 (edited) I can't find any such thread. It's also not really practical for me to leave it installing every single update in one go. I really need to be able to see what's available and choose, because I don't have that kind of bandwidth. Is this possible? I don't mind the idea of updating it to OE (not sure how I 'set my version' however) but I really need to be able to do this in stages for it to be practical. Edited October 7, 2004 by Kylotan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 relable "main" as "update_sources" and that should let you pick the updates from MCC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylotan Posted October 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 It doesn't seem to work properly - I have 'update_source' in there now using the same settings as I entered for 'main', but it still insists on checking the mirrors list, and when I pick one it complains that 'update_source' already exists. Then it tells me the list of updates is empty, which I'm pretty sure is wrong because the last time this all worked for me, there was at least one big update I'd not installed (kernel source, I seem to recall). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 update_sources not update_source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylotan Posted October 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 (edited) All the other documentation and what I had previously said 'update_source'. Why the difference? Will it help if I add '--update' to the urpmi.addmedia command line? I'm not in Linux right now or I'd try this out for myself. Edited October 11, 2004 by Kylotan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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