Easy Urpmi destroyed setup for MandrivaUpdate

[So_it_goes]

Hi

This is my first post and of course a few questions.

 

Found this forum a lot easier to access than the official site.

Strangley they haven't any info about this site on mandriva.org !?

I got this link from another forum.

 

Installed Mandriva 2007 i586,no big problems.

Updated bugs and security patches with MandrivaUpdate.

 

Everything works Ok until I tried OpenOffice.org Database.

 

I couldn't get Openoffice,org database to create a database it reported

"OpenOffice.org requires a java runtime environment"

 

Used MandrivaUpdate to search for a jre package,

but I didn't find any .

 

Then I made 'the mistake' of trying easyurpmi.

Executed the commands, everything went OK, but when I start MandrivaUpdate

I get this error

"A fatal error has occured: It's impossible to retrive the list of new packages from the media 'contrib_updates'...."

 

My guess is that when easyurpmi says that you should remove the media(urpmi.removemedia -a )

is where the trouble starts.

 

Question 1:

How can I either restore the updates to the old setup or get it working with the new setup ?

 

Question 2 :

How can I get OpenOffice.org database to work( install a JRE package ?).

 

 

Thankful for any help

 

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[AussieJohn]

First off, a big welcome to MUB and the Mandriva world.

 

 

Don't panic. You usually get that message because the mirror site you used is presently not synced tp the Mandriva site.

 

Just try runing easy-urpmi and try selecting different mirrors. I have found one of the UK websites to be extremely reliable (anorien....not sure of the correct spelling at this moment. There is a lot of activity on the Mandriva sites at the moment so not all the mirror sites are synced yet or are in the process of resync.

 

 

Cheers. John.

 

PS Using easy-urpmi is NOT a big mistake. It extremely useful and practical and makes it easy to link into rpms you may want to add to your installation. JB

Edited March 17, 2007 by AussieJohn

[arctic]

The urpmi mirrors that you set up with easyurpmi should have a java package available. Try a different mirror in easyurpmi and (suggestion) use the synthesis.hd.cz list checkbox (compressed index), which works imho a bit better than the normal hd.cz list.

 

If you really don't find a java package with urpmi then check this link as a last resort: http://java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#rpm

 

PS: It is NOT a mistake to use easyurpmi. It is the default way for setting up mirrors and installing software.

[So_it_goes]

Hi

 

Thanks for the welcome and help !

 

I've chosen what I think is a stable source ( ftp.sunet ),

sync'ed or not, is there any way to tell ?

 

By the way I'm using KDE.

 

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Update problems :

Experimented with

System->Configuration->Other->LocaleDrake( System )

I've updated through Media Manager like this :

1) Remove every entry in the Media Manager list.

2) Then add 'Official_updates' then add 'Distribution Sources'.

 

Now I have these 7 entries:in Media Manager

 

- update_source

- main

- main_updates

- Main (Official2007.0-1)

- Main Updates (Official2007.0-2)

- Contrib (Official2007.0-3)

- Contrib Updates (Official2007.0-4)

 

This seems to work.

Any comments , do I need PLF ?

 

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JAVA/JRE problems :

It seems that this is the way it is.

When I searched for the problem, I found that I'm not

the only one with this problem.

 

Have to manually install the java package.

Thanks for the link arctic.

 

There are many uninstalled ”java” packages, but I can't find

any specific package that I think is ”the one” I need.

 

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Offtopic :

Shouldn't these java packages get installed when I choose to install a database ?

 

When I run the easy urpmi, it sets up the list that I'll get when I run Media Manager -> Add ?

 

Comments ?

 

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[AussieJohn]

Yes you need PLF, both free and non-free which contain various codecs (for various music formats) and especially libdvdcss if you hope to play movie DVDs on your computer.

 

 

Cheers. John.