I hope that i am replying to yourmessage. We've just gotten evolution
to work well enough that email can atleast be written, and they're is
some audible feedback. The next project is to figgure out how to enable
telnet so that i can administer this thing remotely until I get more
comfortable with orca. On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 13:24 -0700, KevinO wrote:
> > 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.
>
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