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Old 07-17-2008, 09:12 AM   #1
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In my updates (in Mandriva 2008 Spring) I get lots of language support updates popping up. I realized this some time ago when on a slow connection, and it was downloading enormous files for Czech language support and others. (No, I do not speak Czech and have never set anything to Czech on my computer.)
  • Can I turn this off?
  • Can OpenOffice be fixed to not download large unwanted files?
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Old 07-17-2008, 10:39 AM   #2
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Mandriva has the ability to blacklist designated packages from updating by putting them on a "skip" list". I'm not that familiar with the syntax, but you apparently just edit /etc/urpmi/skip.list. Here's a post that goes into the process in a little more detail:

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic....91969fef48b4cf
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