[wellylug] Mandrake 9.0 update

[Jonathan Harker]

On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 8:45 am, Shroeder wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've updated most of my system using 'Mandrake Update' (very easy!) but
> there were a few files that were too large to do over my dial-up account.
>
> I have downloaded them from a broadband account and burnt to disc (they are
> RPM packages)
>
> All I need to know now is how to go about updating using my CD as a
> source?!?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated
>
> Thanks

For the amount of fluffing about involved to add a one-off source to urpmi, 
you could just upgrade the RPMs from the command line. Thus, as root (type su 
and enter the root password):

rpm -Uvh /path/to/myupdatedpackage.rpm

For each one. -U means update, -v means verbose (ie. it tells you what is 
going on), and -h gives you a pretty little progress bar! :-)

If you still want to add local files as a source, do this:

urpmi.addmedia sourcename file:///absolute/path/to/rpms

For instance, I have an assorted collection of various downloaded RPMs in a 
downloads directory, which I added like this (as root):

urpmi.addmedia downloads file:///home/johnno/downloads

Also, bear in mind there is a nifty cache of non-standard (read slightly 
dodgy, eg. DVD decryption, patented algorithms, etc) Mandrake specific RPMs 
at the Penguin Liberation Front, 

http://plf.zarb.org/

Which includes modified Mandrake builds of xine, mplayer, mp3, libdvdcss, 
alternative KDE skins and artwork, etc. There's even a button on the site 
that generates the command for adding a PLF mirror to your urpmi, eg:

urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/9.0 with hdlist.cz

If you want to remove a source afterwards (perhaps it was only temporary), go

urpmi.removemedia sourcename

Hope that helps,
Jon

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Jonathan Harker
MUSAC
Massey University
http://www.massey.ac.nz/

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