Strange EasyUrpmi thing

[Arne]

Hello Guys,

I get different answer from different commands in Cli.

I did this:

fresh install 2006.0

installed all updates on the 2.6.12-12 kernel

downloaded and installed the latest kernel (2.6.12-21 kernel

downloaded and installed the compatible kernel-source

Could not create a symbolic link to build. # I am told this link is not needed

When I go urpmi.update -a I get back to the prompt

When I do urpmi --auto-select I am told a lot of packages must be installed, more than 300MB.

 

Why do I get different answers?????

Has it something to do with the new kernel??????

:mellow:

 

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[ianw1974]

The new kernel source on the mirrors is 2.6.12.22mdk at the moment. The kernel is 2.6.12.22mdk as well. This is what I would do:

 

urpmi kernel-2.6.12.22mdk kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-22mdk

 

this will install both these at the same time on your system. Reboot to use the new kernel, and then you should be able to. The link is usually created in /usr/src, so here is how mine looks:

 

[ian@europa ~]$ ls -l /usr/src
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  18 May 25 08:08 linux -> linux-2.6.12-22mdk/
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root 696 May 25 08:07 linux-2.6.12-22mdk/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 168 Apr 18 11:41 RPM/

 

as you can see /usr/src/linux points to my kernel source 2.6.12-22mdk. The urpmi --auto-select is going to install all updates that it finds from the repositories you set up, namely updates, main and contrib, and even plf-free and plf-nonfree if you have these on the system. I find it best to make sure all updates are applied to the system, since there are a lot of fixes since the default install from Mandriva 2006 CD/DVD.

[Arne]

Hello Ian,

Please tell me the mirror(s) that have the 2.6.12.22mdk kernel ?????

I have tried Japan and Netherland but no luck.

Edited May 27, 2006 by Arne

[ianw1974]

You could try the UK (anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk) mirror, I think this is where I got it from.