menendez Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 It appears that the search function in PRMDrake does not work. If I hit the search button nothing happens. I have tried all the search options: in names, in descriptions, in flle names. I have tried known package names and wildcards. Any recommendations? I am running Spring '07 KDE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 What are you searching for? What did you type in the box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menendez Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 What are you searching for? What did you type in the box? One example would be *pingus* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Have you set up your easyurpmi sources? If not, maybe this is why you can't find it. I've not got Mandriva 2007.1 Spring installed right now, but here is where I found the rpm available: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3 visit this link and type pingus, and you can see pingus is available for Mandriva 2007.1 (Spring). If you've not got it on your system, I would say you don't have your easyurpmi sources configured for at least main and contrib. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menendez Posted September 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 The sources are set up. And I can navigate through the menus in the left panel of RPMDrake to find desired packages/programs. It is just that this is a time consuming way to do things. I was hoping that search feature near the top would make things easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 trying opening a terminal and running the program from there, then watch the terminal when you do the search and see if any error messages are being printed out there. the search function should work, but I'm not really sure what would be causing it not to...(unless you've found yourself a nifty bug). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 As tyme says, search from a console window like this: urpmf --name pingus and see if it gives you results. If so there might be a prob with the gui app, try and apply updates if not already done this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menendez Posted September 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Your terminal command worked. Mandriva Online says my system is up to date. After executing the terminal command I went back into the GUI and searched for a few things. It turns out my problem is newbie user error. I figured out that it doesn't like leading wildcards. I was giving both a leading and trailing wildcard around my search word. When I drop the leading wildcard all is fine. Thanks for all the help and my apologies for raising a non-issue in this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 (edited) Thanks for all the help and my apologies for raising a non-issue in this forum. Glad you found your problem. Edited September 6, 2007 by daniewicz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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