bvc Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Hi BVC. With your years of experience it may be easy but for most of the rest of us it is not always easy.Started Feb. 2002 Sir :wink: When I was doing the above posted, I was on ML8.1 in April/May 2002. Got my first pc Nov. 2000. I'm also a highschool drop-out and just shipping and receiving mgr. of a rather small graphics/printing/bindery co. I'm not a bumb that sits around with lots of time to learn this stuff. I have a wife and three children to support/love/and spend time with. Hardly experienced....actually, quite the n00b and google a lot. I'm just not afraid to tear it up, and learn from my mistakes. That's all linux requires. Guts. :P When 9.0 was released, my 8.1 was almost up to date from the cli and gnorpm. Urpmi was horid on 8.1. Some are naturals, some are not, and that's OK. Doesn't mean they're dumb, they just don't get it as fast, or sometimes at all. That's why I say 'tear it up'. When you learn a windows registry, and the linux /proc fs/kernel, things begin to make more sense and click. JMHO :wink: So yes, nah :P Feel free to comment, but, lets get back ontopic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Yeah easy urpmi has been a bit shaky lately... BUT It is well worth persisting. Add the mandrakeusers.org mirrors (as said earlier) If you have line problems (and even if not) it often makes sense to use the -noclean option in urpmi. This leaves the packages in the cache /var/cache/urpmi (or similar) So if one fails you can hunt down just the one .... When urpmi is working well it really does make dep hell more or less go away. My advice is to persist on getting it working properly, its a good investment of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xamusk Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Actually, with rpmdrake this becomes quite easy as you can put all of them in one dir and use the Software Sources Manager (equal to using the urpmi.addmedia). I figured it out without RTFM, so it's not that hard even for newbies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pepse Posted October 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 I'm back. Anyway I think the MUBPLF link worked. I have not tried anything because I want to make sure that the results of what I put into the system is right. Okay, I typed in bvc's first link and the answer is (this is at the bottom of the page after it does the examining synthesis file bit): Retrieving description file of "mubplf"... Retieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "mubplf"... ftp://213.232.94.69/pub/PLF/mandrake/9.1/hdlist.cz ...retrieving done examining MD5SUM file examining hdlist file [var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.mubplf.cz writing list/file for medium "mubplf" Found 0 headers in cache removing 0 obsolete headers in cache write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.config] Then I'm back at root. True this seems to tell me that what I did worked but I decided to post before I get happy and go to PLf and something ain't right. Later. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 it worked! Now, remove plf as a source, and use mubplf. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xamusk Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 By the way, does anyone know how to make rpmdrake use urpmi command-line options, or how to set them so that one wouldn't have to type them every time urpmi runs (make them default)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepse Posted October 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 bvc, What?? How/where do I do that (remove plf and replace it with mubplf)?? Chances are I might feel stoopid with your answer but I gotta ask. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 [root@ml /]# urpmi.removemedia --help usage: urpmi.removemedia [-a] <name> ... where <name> is a medium name to remove. --help - print this help message. -a - select all media. -c - clean headers cache directory. [root@ml /]# urpmi.removemedia plf I only say remove it because it didn't work for you and it's just sitting there as a broken source. IMO, better to get it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepse Posted October 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 That wasn't a good idea. I did "urpmi.removemedia plf " and it removed the mubplf . So, I went back and tried to re-install mubplf from the info from bvc and the screen I get seems to be an info screen as it gives me choices that if I type in --wget or --limit rate , etc., etc., and at the bottom it says " 'with' missing for ftp media . That makes twice I tried to re-install it and it comes back with the same error. I don't know. Later. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 :shock: :shock: :shock: that makes no sense! I've had multiple plf's/removed one/ many times when having mirror trouble. I don't get it????? Try MCC>Software Management>Software Sources Mgr (or whatever) and see if it'll add mubplf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepse Posted October 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 Ok, so I went to Software Sources manager an was able to add the mubplf source. Then I went back to the plf site and downloaded D5D and the reply was that it is already installed (yeah right). Well then I downloaded libdvdcss2 and of course after it downloaded I got the bad signature error. I thought "OK I'll try the MPlayer file"; same result, bad signature file. So, then I went back to page one and did the rpmrebuild. It did. So, (ask I stupidly ask) now what?? Being that it said the D5D was already installed I went and tried a movie again and it still isn't working. Same prob I mentioned at the start of this mess. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaa Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 the bad signature thing probably means you don't have the PLF PGP/GPG key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepse Posted October 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 OK,then what??? Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaa Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 then you need to import PLF's public key. until 9.1 it was sufficient to run this command as root lynx -source http://plf.zarb.org/plf.asc | gpg --import but I think starting from 9.2 you'll need lynx -source http://plf.zarb.org/plf.asc > plf.asc rpm --import plf.asc then you'll need to associate the key with the plf source. you can do that through the Software Sources Manager (I have no idea how to do it from the command line). after that your PLF packages should install without signature errors. cheers, Alaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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