rlemp Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 Hello to everybody! Two years ago I already signed a membership there and I received frequent update notifications by e-mail. Due to moving circumstances I didn't renew the subscription. Being now in my new home I subscribed again for € 19,95 to Mandrake online. in order to receive actual update announcements. But nothing happens, the money is gone but no reply on my mails to Mandriva. Just silence. Is there something changed? BTW, I run now Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005, before I worked with Mandrake 10.1 CE. Many thanks in advance Best regards /Reinhard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 We are not an official Mandriva site and have nothing to do with Mandriva. We are however the best tech support they have. :lol: The Club is what you are probably looking for. Check it out on Mandriva's home page. Since I am a cynic when it comes to Mandriva's business tactic, I won't tell you what I think the benefits of membership are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolf Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 Well, you should get your value or your money back. Unfortunately, sometimes people have a hard time getting through. Try talking to Adam Williamson. He gives his email in his posts on the Forum: http://forum.mandrivaclub.com/viewtopic.ph...de52ac7a#151898 Or, you could try contacting the Webmaster at the site. He is sometimes more responsive. There are alternatives to being aware of security updates. The simplest way is the run MandrakeUpdate from a terminal periodically. Another thing you can do is read the articles at MandrivaClub, where security updates are always announced. http://www.mandrivaclub.com/index.php You can get announcements by joining the security-announce mailing lists, get an rss feed, or utilize the other resources by following the Security link at the top of the mandrivalinux.com main page: http://www.mandrivalinux.com/en-us/ AFAIK, all these resources are free to anyone and, of course, MandrakeUpdate is a free part of the distribution. I use urpmi to manage my official updates. You can use urpmi.addmedia --update update_source <url of main_updates/ directory on mirror> with media_info/hdlist.cz to add a source but you will already have one, presumably from using mandrakeonline. I am not sure of the sequence of steps you have undergone. You can see the names of your urpmi media with urpmq --list-media If there is no update source, run MandrakeUpdate or urpmi.addmedia to add one. With an update source in place, it needs to be refreshed to any new updates packages that have been uploaded to the mirror: urpmi.update --update Then, you can check for and install any new updates: urpmi --clean --update --auto-select See man urpmi man urpmi.addmedia man urpmi.update etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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