Guest Char Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 to my existing, already installed system? (Installed system and install cd are both 9.1). I didn't install X with KDE at first, but want to use it now. I only seem to have urpmi available, and dont know if I can use it to install X&KDE. Sorry if I sound a bit n00bish- thats because I am.. :| Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 yeah, you can use urpmi, tho i'm not exactly 100% sure what the best way of doing it would be... try: urpmi kde see if that does anything for you.... or possibly: urpmi xfree86 then: urpmi kde just ideas, i haven't used urpmi in 2 months+, so my memory of how it works is fading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 so my memory of how it works is fading... Old age tymehacker :lol: But yes, those sugestions should work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 I don't entirely understand your question. If you want to install the packages stored on the CD, then yes thats fine. If you want to use the INSTALLER that is on the CD, then probably not. I'm guessing from your post that your machine has no X so just boots to the command prompt. My advice would be to log in as root and then : urpmi xfree86 drakconf (or drakfx) urpmi kde This should not only install KDE & X but also all the things that are required for them to work. Drakcong should allow you to setup your graphics card. Of course it might be easier to just to install again from scratch using the install CD if your setup is still fair new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 so my memory of how it works is fading... Old age tymehacker :lol: But yes, those sugestions should work ha! obviously I DID remember, so no old age here ;-) but thanks for confirming my suggestions. and mtweidmann has a good suggestion, after urpmi xfree86 running drakconf would be a good idea. i'd give it a go, and if it doesn't work out, then just go the re-install route (if the install is fairly new, as mtweidmann said) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 If i understand this: Char has installed from a set of MDK 9.1 CD's and would now like to upgrade his 9.1 system. Is this not the intended purpose of the upgrade feature on the install CD ? As opposed to upgrading a 9.0 system to 9.1, which has given much grief to many users. Although X and KDE are probally the two most problematic and might be better installing another way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 With urpmi, if you attempt to install kde where there has been no x, urpmi will install everything, including x and the mandrake tools. You will, however, have to configure x by running the config program. So, you lose the nice prompts during an install. The upgrade option would work, and it would do all the hard stuff for you. It is the only acceptable use for the "upgrade" option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Char Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 Thanks all for your quick and helpful replies! Yes, scoopy is right, I want to ''upgrade'' the 9.1 to 9.1, and add packages in the process. So like mtweidmann said, the question was if I could use the installer from the install-CD. When performing an upgrade however, the "install packages" dialog does not appear. All installed packages are updated automatically, but you cannot add. As I understand, you cant use the install CD, but have to use urpmi. I was a bit uncertain if this would resolve all dependencies, but as I understand, it will. Thanks, I will try as suggested above - got a ghost image anyway. BTW, does mandrake have XF86config? I remember that from my first linux distro (Slackware 2.2) - after that there was a looong time of nothing linux like however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Char Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 hmm.. 'urpmi kde' gives me an immense list of packages containing 'kde' - lol.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 yeah, that's normal. KDE has a crapload of packages. maybe a re-install would work out better :-/ (not the upgrade) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manly Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 Try urpmi kde*. If that doesn't work, cd into /mnt/cdrom/where_rpms_are, and then do urpmi kde* - that works for sure (i have used that method to manually d/l texstar rpm's and install them - it works really well :-) --Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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