Can someone explain to me what the deal is with the SMART package manager in Mandriva 2006? For something advertised as one of the major new features of this version, I was surprised that it was not installed by default. I detest the current gui for rpmdrake, and was excited to hear that they were using a new package manager for this release. After finally discovering that it was not already installed, i installed it using rpmdrake...I got no entry for it on my menu, so i started it with smart --gui at the command line...which opened up the program, but when I try to update the channels, it gives me an error that says "can't update channels in readonly mode." read only mode? I also found it odd that I couldn't find any documentation on the software...I'm not even sure what it wants for "channels"...are they just rpm repo's, or something special? Any help here would be appreciated...

Why use a gui at all for something so simple as switching to root in a terminal and typing urpmi <packagename>?/

I don't even open RPMDrake...

Smart is not the default package management tool because it is still under heavy development, so you should expect to have some problems.

If i know what I'm looking for, I just urpmi from the terminal...but i find the gui useful for browsing what's on my computer and what is available

you say you cant find any documentation for smart, yet its on the smart homepage. i have written 2 of the howtos. http://labix.org/smart

the reason you cant do anything is cause your running as user and not as root. kdesu smart --gui will do the trick.

see man urpmq and man urpmf

the documentation is smart --help. heres a howto for channels http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikk...=setupcommands