tyme Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 (edited) [i have this beef with Software Installer: If you download a package that requires several files, then fail on downloading one of the files - on retry you have to download from the beginning again.]I'm not sure how to do this via the GUI, but if you use urpmi through the command line --no-clean will keep it from cleaning out the cache. This way, it will store the rpm's that get downloaded for the session (in case you lose connection). Although, I thought urpmi only cleans up after a successful install. Edited October 14, 2008 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 True, I had this a few weeks ago, I'd used urpmi to install one package and its dependencies (without any special options, just urpmi <package>). It successfully downloaded the big one but failed on one of the smaller ones. When I ran exactly the same command again later, it only had to download the little ones, as the ones which had already been downloaded (but not yet installed) were waiting in /var/cache/urpmi . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 My most recent experience with this is when I was running off the 2009.0 One CD and was trying to install Opera. I had downloaded the 8.5 MB rpm from Opera and when I right-clicked on it to install, there were two dependancies that were needed, qt3-common and libqt3. The mirrors weren't working too well yet. qt3-common downloaded fine, but libqt3 did not. Everytime I tried to restart this, it always redownloaded qt3-common and failed on libqt3. Frustrated after a couple of hours, I manually downloaded libqt3 from a mirror and installed it by itself. Next I chose to install Opera again, and again it downloaded qt3-common, then proceded with installing both packages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nooob Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 I ran the command line update and wrecked it........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 tyme: I was simplifying a bit. The auto mirror selection and aria2 magic makes it a bit more complex than I explained. But basically, yes, that's one of the improvements that's coming when we re-open the feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Maybe the "Congratulations, Upgrade to Mandriva release was successful" message when nothing has been upgraded can be fixed too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 You got a full upgrade from 2008.1 to 2009.0 in three seconds and zero bandwidth, and you still complain?! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Yeah, it shouldn't be asking for a reboot ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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