SuperDoyle Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 hi i i'm running 10.1 community.. i was told i could update my distro to LE using easy urpmi... if so how would i go about this.. i done updated my urpmi to 10.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 Open a console, login as root and type: urpmi.update -a (to update the package list) and urpmi --auto-select (will automatically install new packages) Hint: updates are notoriously unreliable. Better is to do a clean reinstall without formatting /home (all your user data and settings will be safe. Of course only if you keep this data in /home :) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 You can update it. First thing would be to remove existing media. Type urpmi.removemedia -a (this will remove all media sources for 10.1 and urpmi links if you set them up). Then visit the easyurpmi link at the top of this page and choose 2005 as your source, and select all sources main, contrib, jpackage, updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree. Then, all you would do is from the prompt, type urpmi --auto-select --auto. This will upgrade every 10.1 component to LE2005. It can cause a few issues after upgrade, such as sound etc, but mostly you should be OK. If you get any problems, post them, and we can help out. I did a 10.0 to LE2005 upgrade, and it went perfectly fine. However, as devries says, you should really do a fresh install or upgrade from CD/DVD to make it a bit cleaner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinhla Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 However, as devries says, you should really do a fresh install or upgrade from CD/DVD to make it a bit cleaner. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I second this considering the fact that LE2005 installs in about 15-20 min with OpenOffice unselected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperDoyle Posted July 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 i've tried the, urpmi --auto-select --auto however it gave me errors durning the upgrade. you can find the errors here: http://www.angelfire.com/pa4/Doyle/linux.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperDoyle Posted July 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 ok, i've found out i can't install LE on my sys.. i tried it on cd and easy urpmi. however i got the 10.1 official to go though. i'll be happy with that for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted July 14, 2005 Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 Then visit the easyurpmi link at the top of this page and choose 2005 as your source, and select all sources main, contrib, jpackage, updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree. Then, all you would do is from the prompt, type urpmi --auto-select --auto. This will upgrade every 10.1 component to LE2005. before typing urpmi --auto-select --auto don't forget to type urpmi urpmi to make sure Urpmi is fully updated first! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aphex_Twin Posted July 14, 2005 Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 can someone tell me how do I configure urpmi to add the mandrake cds back into it's media list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted July 14, 2005 Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 (edited) URL and relative path to list removable://mnt/cdrom/media/main ../../media/media_info/hdlist1.cz removable://mnt/cdrom/media/main2 ../../media/media_info/hdlist2.cz removable://mnt/cdrom/media/main3 ../../media/media_info/hdlist3.cz You can use -ADD CUSTOM- in MCC/Software Management/Media Manager Edited July 14, 2005 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolf Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 can someone tell me how do I configure urpmi to add the mandrake cds back into it's media list? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...=0entry195578 Put CD1 in the reader and do, as root:urpmi.addmedia --distrib removeable://mnt/cdrom or whatever is the mount point of your reader. https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=25781&hl= With both a local and an ftp source configured for the main packages, I don't know if urpmi defaults to one or the other. You could remove or disable the ftp source for main in Menu > System > Configuration > Packaging > Software Media Manager or remove it with urpmi.removemedia main or use the --excludemedia switch with urpmi. Make sure of the name of the media you are removing if you use the commandline by doing urpmq --list-media See man urpmi man urpmi.addmedia man urpmq man urpmi.removemedia etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 I tried the urpmi urpmi first, causing it to want to download and install a bunch of different packages. However it failed on three of them, leaving me unable to complete the next step since urpmi wouldn't work. I am now in the process of restoring my system from backups. If urpmi is already loaded into memory and executing, why would one need to update it first, before doing the urpmi --auto-select --auto? Wouldn't this second step also update urpmi for subsequent uses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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