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If you want to use the graphical tools, you can. Just go into mandrake control center>software management>install. Type pciutils in the search filed and the package should be listed. Tick on the package and hit the install button. The software management section of mcc is just a graphical front end for urpmi. I just find it easier to run it from the command line. Note you must be root to run urpmi so do:
... I have Mandrake 10.1 installed, and when i run urpmi for the pciutils package, it reports Everything already installed. But, when i use scanModem (Linmodems.org), it reports the package is not there
I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure this out.
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