KevinO wrote:
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> Vaughn Treude wrote:
>> For most things, the configure/make/install sequence has worked fine for 
>> me.  It's a pain, though, when there are a lot of small pieces.
> It is a huge pain on an older system like this.
> 
>> I've used yum and apt-get but wasn't aware of urpmi.  Is it in any way 
>> related to rpmdrake?
> rpmdrake is a graphical front-end for urpmi. I suggest urpmi/urpmf/urpme/urpmq
> from the command line because they work well and you can see and diagnose errors
> more easily than you can with rpmdrake. Also, the command line tools provide a
> lot more flexibility and functionality.
> 
> More information:
> 
>    http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Urpmi
> 
>    http://mandrakehelp.com/RPM-HOWTO.html
> 
> 
> Some often used variations of the commands, there are others...
> 
> To remove a package
> 
>  # urpme <pkgname>
> 
> To query detailed information about a package
> 
>  # urpmq -i <pkgname>
> 
> To find out which package supplied a certain
> 
>  # urpmf /path/to/file/name
> 
> To bring your local database up-to-date with all your mirror sources
> 
>  # urpmi.update -a
> 
> To install all available updated packages, including security updates
> 
>  # urpmi --update --auto-select
> 
> 
> 
>> Why do you have to "remove" the CD?
> You don't have to, but it is a needless inconvenience to install packages from
> the CDs after the installation is completed, assuming you have a reasonably fast
> internet connection. Everything that you need is on the mirrors, and will be
> located and installed without having to drag out and swap CDs. Many of the
> packages have been updated: rendering the packages on the CDs obsolete anyway.
> 
> Occasionally you might have a problem with a messed-up mirror. In that case, use
> urpmi.removemedia and urpmi.addmedia to switch to a working mirror.
> 
> - --
> KevinO

Kevin,
It took me a while, but I finally got around to updating the sources for 
urpmi.  The easyurpmi web site was easy to use, but I'm still having 
trouble.

1. The first time, it assigned me servers in Pennsylvania and the Czech 
Republic.  There was a problem somewhere and the addmedia command didn't 
work at all.

2. So I changed the main server from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and tried 
again. The addmedia commands worked, and I was able to do the 
command-line install of ffmpeg.  But when I tried using ffmpeg, I was 
still missing codecs.  So I fired up rpmdrake and tried to select the 
entire "video" section.  It failed, saying it couldn't open any of the 
RPM's.  (This shouldn't be a permission problem, because I'm running 
rpmdrake as root!)

3. So I changed the PLF site from the Czech Republic to Taiwan, and 
restarted rpmdrake.  Now it has a different problem.  When I try to 
install the video applications, it gives a huge list of items that it 
"can't be selected."  Huh?  I thought this was supposed to be automagical!

So, I think I may have chosen the wrong "Penguin Liberation Front" 
server, but there are several.  How do I know which to try?

Thanks again,
Vaughn

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