Newbie went away [solved]

[RUMPLE4SKIN]

I was trying to learn on MDK 10.1 a few months back, and the drive I had it on crashed, and I just never reinstalled until now. The first thing I went to do was run EASY-URPMI from your site, plf-free went fine, then when I tried to run update updates, heres what I got:

 

[root@10 gian]# ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linu...5/main_updates/ with media_info/hdlist.cz

bash: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linu.../main_updates/: No such file or directory

So then I tried a different mirror site and got this:

 

[root@10 gian]# ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distr...5/main_updates/ withmedia_info/hdlist.cz

bash: ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distr.../main_updates/: No such file or directory

 

Anyone have any idea to what I did wrong? I'm sure this newbie did something wrong. I didn't continue with EASY-URPMI because I wanted to see why this happened first.

 

 

 

Thank you all very much in advance,

[dexter11]

You forgot to type urpmi.addmedia before the ftp address.

[AussieJohn]

When you do the Easy-Urpmi routine and after pressing 3, you are shown the necessary address. When you copy it into Konsole as su or as root you are required to copy the ENTIRE line into konsole not just from the ftp://........... part

See the following example which I just got for Update in Easy-Urpmi:-

 

urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mandrakel...5/main_updates/ with media_info/hdlist.cz

 

 

Do it that way and you will have no problems.

 

 

John.

Edited May 29, 2005 by AussieJohn

[RUMPLE4SKIN]

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

 

If I can bug you guys for something else or anyone who's listening. Is libstdc++.so.5 a downloadable file. I don't appear to have it on my system.

The instruction say:

tar -xzvf /home/me/location/firefox-1.0.4.installer.tar.gz

cd /firefox-installer

./firefox-installer

 

I did that and got the following

[gian@10 firefox-installer]$ ./firefox-installer

./firefox-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

So that's when I assumed it wasn't installing due to that file. So, I was wondering if that's a file that can just be downloaded

 

excuse me for my ignorance

 

thank a lot

[arctic]

yes, you can download all packages with the above mentioned easyurpmi tool. you can download it either via a terminal (urpmi libstdc++) or using the mcc.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

urpmi libstdc++

[AussieJohn]

If a file which has a .so at the end of it , it means it is part of a larger file which may have many more other .so files in it. That is why you could not get a google reference to it. Yes it is one of two parts of libstdc++. It should be on your Install discs.

Open MCC or Mandrake Control Centre ----> Software Management --->Look at installable software and install software packages -----> All Packages Alphabetical scroll down until you see the libstdc++ package and select it for install. If it has any dependencies, it will tell you and select OK then click Install at the bottom and follow any instructions it will give you about what number disc to insert and so on. None of this needs to be done from the command line at all. Command Line users just prefer that way, but for those not used to command Line it is an awkward way of doing this simple task.

 

Cheers. John.

Edited May 29, 2005 by AussieJohn

[RUMPLE4SKIN]

it's telling me that package is already installed. That being said, is there a reason why firefox won't install?

 

thank you again : )

[arctic]

maybe it also needs the development packages? :unsure:

search for libdevel-stdcc++ or somethinglike that...

[adamw]

urpmi libstdc++5

[RUMPLE4SKIN]

Thank you for all your help, It must had worked with urpmi libstdc++5, because I was able to install after that

 

so thank you everyone : )

[adamw]

yep, that will have been it. Just doing 'urpmi libstdc++' will try and do libstdc++6, which will almost certainly already be there. If you want an older libstdc++, you have to give the exact name. (There's also libstdc++2.10 , IIRC).