sjwoeste Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 What is the best/easiest way to upgrade applications like Mozilla, Evolution, etc. to the next version? I am running 9.0. Neither rmpdrake nor mandrakeonline look like they will work since there is a version 1.2 of evolution in my rpmdrake "installable" software, but Mandrake Update does not install it. Ximian Red Carpet sounds like it will perform this function, but I don't want to install a lot of unneeded software if it does not work well, or I don't need it. Thanks for the advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 Well, the best way to upgrade some apps is to add texstar's place in your urpmi database. All you have to do is type this in console as root urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...ndrake/9.0/rpms with hdlist.cz (all that in one line). Then open your rpmdrake (software installation) and choose the programs you want to install, or just urpmi it. Of course, you could always go cooker, but it's not recommended since it is development branch and it could be unstable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 I would stay away from Red Carpet, it may be better now, but in the past it caused me all sorts of grief. I would suggest adding the cooker to your source list, via urpmi: urpmi.addmedia cooker ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-dev...r/Mandrake/RPMS with synthesis.hdlist.cz With cooker updating evolution to 1.2.1 is simplly urpmi evolution. Mozilla is probably trickier because for 1.3 there are all sorts of other files, including XFree. I would image you should not be running in a X environment, but I'll let someone who knows more comment on that. As a rule having cooker as one of your media makes things much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 Yeah, about 8 months ago ximian recked havoc on me as well. I don't know what it's like now. I'd recommend urpmi. I've heard good things about texstar's apt-get and synaptic but I haven't tried them. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php As a rule having cooker as one of your media makes things much easier.True. But you also need to be prepared to download to just have to uninstall and try something else. Cooker is cutting edge, and therefore not always stable. On the lighter side, I've only had a few probs with pkgs from cooker, nothing major. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjwoeste Posted January 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 Thanks for the advice, I now understand better how the tools work together... I added texstar to my urpmi sources (worked), ran "urpmi evolution" in a shell Konsole and got error message "installation failed: libgal.so.19 is needed by libgtkhtml20-1.0.4-4mdk". Rpmdrake says that libgtkhtml20-1.0.4-4mdk is already installed. What next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ight=libgtkhtml [EDITED]Actually it's the second page.... http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...tkhtml&start=15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 I had a similar problem with evolution and Texstar's rpms. Cooker's worked very well. I know one should be leary of cooker, but as far as evolution is concerned their rpms work nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjwoeste Posted January 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 Thanks everybody for all your help, I learned a lot! Your advice was clear and specific enough that I was able to follow it to the end. I got evolution from cooker, and it worked, but will stay away from other cooker packages ( and other application upgrades) untill i'm more experienced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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