Buzz27 Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 Hi, I am trying to add various applications ie. K9copy ,dvdshrink etc but having tried Easy-Urpmi previously I have resorted to adding them manually but still keep hitting problems. Every time I attempt to run Easy-Urpmi to add plf-free and non free to my sources, all i get is : bad <url> (for local directory, the path must be absolute) Even running the command in a root shell urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2008.1.i586.list' I get an error Unknown option: mirrorlist Any ideas. I am running kernel 2.6.22.18-server-1mdv. [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 (edited) I think you are using 2008.0 not 2008.1 since mirrorlist is a new feature in 2008.1 and you are running a 2.6.22 kernel and not a 2.6.24. First upgrade or reinstall (back up important stuff first) or use 2008.0 repos Edited May 25, 2008 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz27 Posted May 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 I think you are using 2008.0 not 2008.1 since mirrorlist is a new feature in 2008.1 and you are running a 2.6.22 kernel and not a 2.6.24. First upgrade or reinstall (back up important stuff first) or use 2008.0 repos I have managed to install K9copy after updating my sources with Smart-Urpmi urpmi.addmedia --update plf-free_release ftp://plf.lastdot.org/plf/2008.1/free/release/binary/i586/ with media_info/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia --update plf-nonfree_release ftp://plf.lastdot.org/plf/2008.1/non-free/release/binary/i586/ with media_info/hdlist.cz All now seems to be okay. I will look into updating to 2.6.24, depending on benefits. What benefits/ fixes are you aware of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 The benefits of the newer kernel are - as always - bugfixes and security-fixes as well as improved hardware support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 All now seems to be okay.Maybe it seems to be okay but you might be making problems for yourself later. Generally it's a bad idea to use 2008.1 repositories with a 2008.0 system. With the PLF stuff it may be less of a problem, but it's something you should be aware of. In the case of k9copy, it's also available in the 2008.0 repositories so you could use it from there - I don't know about dvdshrink though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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