ixoye777 Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 I have been trying to decide on which distro to use and have been bouncing back and forth between Mandriva, OpenSUSE and Kubuntu. I am back to Mandriva again. I just installed it again last night after having OpenSUSE on my system for a few weeks. I used the Easy-Urpmi to setup my repositories and I am wondering if there are other repos to setup that I am missing. I am doing a search for simple things things like virtualbox or the dolphin file manager and nothing is coming up. Any ideas or am I just being daft? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 main: The main distribution media with the officially supported packages contrib: Lots of additional packages non-free: Some packages that do not contain open source software main_updates: Updates for main, including security updates contrib_updates: Updates for contrib, including security updates non-free_updates: Updates for non-free, including security updates main_backports: Newer but less-tested versions of some packages in main contrib_backports: Newer but less-tested versions of some packages in contrib and finally non-free_backports: well, you get the idea... https://mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/index.php ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 :huh: What was that? Those repositories you've got should be fine already, but maybe the servers you chose are down / temporarily broken or whatever. Try the command "Update media" from the gui, or urpmi.update -a from the command line, and see if any error messages come up (couldn't contact host, file not found, etc etc). If so, select a different mirror and try again. Actually I didn't know dolphin was available yet, I thought that was coming new with KDE4 (Mandriva 2008). But I see it in my gui and I've got the same repositories selected as you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 (edited) There is also a "non-free" repo which you can use- its present in easyurpmi configuration page, AFAIK. There are also a few unofficial repos ( MCN, SoS, MDE ) which you can use, BUT you must use them with great care as messing things up with third party packages is not very difficult... @ neddie: Dolphin also has a KDE3/QT3 version, and more than that there's a hacked version of dolphin out there named "d3lphin" with some UI improvements. Edited September 19, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 actually, it's even simpler. you're using 2007, which is around a year old, now, and not our latest release any more. neither VirtualBox nor Dolphin was actually available when 2007 came out, so neither of them is available as a 2007 package in the main repositories. There's nothing wrong with your repository setup, the packages you want just aren't there :) You could update to 2007 Spring, our latest release, which definitely has VirtualBox and I think has Dolphin. Or you could wait a couple of weeks for 2008, which is due out very soon, and just upgrade straight to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixoye777 Posted September 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Excellent, thanks for the help guys. This is one of the main reasons I came back to Mandriva - the support you guys are willing to give when people like me have a question. I am using the 2007 Spring Edition - the DVD. I tried as neddie suggested and all seems to be well: [dad@localhost ~]$ urpmi.update -a medium "plf-free" is up-to-date medium "plf-nonfree" is up-to-date medium "main" is up-to-date medium "main_updates" is up-to-date medium "contrib" is up-to-date medium "contrib_updates" is up-to-date I will try adding the non-free repo as well and see if that gets me anywhere. I did not know that 2008 was due out shortly, I will look forward to giving it a whirl when it is out in a few weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 This is one of the main reasons I came back to Mandriva - the support you guys are willing to give when people like me have a question. Actually a lot of people here (incl. myself) aren't basically Mandriva users- just Linux lovers. But it IS a nice community, and most people will try their best to help when they can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 I will try adding the non-free repo as well and see if that gets me anywhere. Dolphin is in contrib/release, the virtualbox packages are in main/release. So if you can't find them now adding the non-free repo won't help in it. It's still useful though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 I am using the 2007 Spring Edition - the DVD.The reason adamw thinks you're using 2007 is that on the screenshot you sent, the package it finds is listed as 2007.0, which implies that you have your repositories set up for 2007.0 (which isn't Spring Edition). If you're in doubt, post the urls you're using for your repositories. In EasyUrpmi you should select "2007 Spring" and not "2007" as your Mandriva version. And the urls should have 2007.1 in them, not 2007.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixoye777 Posted September 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2007 Yes sir, that was it. When I did the EasyUrpmi I had it set for 2007 not 2007 Spring. I did the "urpmi.removemedia -a" in the terminal and set it up anew with the 07 spring repos. Thanks guys = ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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