mikey_111 Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 I seem to have strange behavior in my mandrake update I have double entries for the same software, when I run update with one of the listed servers. the files look the same except one is bigger than the other. and if I select them to install it says everything allready installed. I reloaded the list and they still show up. Any Idea? mikey_111 forgot, useing MDK 8.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 I abandoned Mandrake Update in favour of direct download of the updates from the mirror. There is an extensive list of mirrors to choose from. My choice is http://ftp.sunet.se because it gives me good download speed particularly in the Eastern Time Zone in N.A. Downloading to a directory on the /home partition allows me to save them and reinstall in the event of a catastrophic failure requiring a reinstall. Mandrake Update does not save the files after an update. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 It's true, Mandrake update is not all that good. I do it the hard way by manually picking my updates. I am not real big on mass updating Mandrake, as I've had problems come up in the past when I do it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandriva-user Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 Ixthusdan wrote: It's true, Mandrake update is not all that good. I do it the hard way by manually picking my updates. I am not real big on mass updating Mandrake, as I've had problems come up in the past when I do it that way. You right and thank you for the tips. My computer runing very nice with the new motherboard know I will install mandrake 9.0 on feb.03. ciao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey_111 Posted January 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 Thanks all, sounds like a plan I'll just download to my drive. I tried removing all my sources and a different ftp source and still got weirdness :-| mikey_111 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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