Using urpmi - where do the downloaded files go ?
As a nOOb to Linux - 1 week in - I've found that I need to re-install quite frequently (to sort out partitions for dual boot, problems with X that I'm so far incapable of sorting out from the command line etc)
I VERY MUCH LIKE what I find so far with LINUX. However having discovered the joys of urpmi (via this site and easyurpmi.zarb.org ) I have 2 related questions.... 1. How can I recognise - and thus copy to CD - those files that have been downloaded via urpmi ? 2. How - on a subsequent reinstall - do I make urpmi aware that I have the relevant files (or most of them - given 'new' releases) to hand and thus prevent the slow process of downloading them yet again P.S. Mandrake 10.1 Community installed from DVD/cdrom CD-RW drive = cdrom1 DVD/CD drive = cdrom |
The easiest way is to not *install* them, but just download. Fidn where urpmi is downloading the files from (should be an ftp server) and connect to it using an ftp program of choice. Download teh respective programs and burn them (the *.rpm files) to a disk.
Code:
man urpmi |
Thanks scuzzman
I probably wasn't very clear in my original post that it was actually the hdlist.cz files that I was after rather than rpm files - it is these that take the bulk of the time to download at the moment. Anyway I found them in /var/lib/urpmi and have copied them onto a FAT32 partition for safe keeping.... though whether of course I can manage to get them to work when the need arises isn't yet clear to me....... Easy urpmi creates console commands such as Code:
urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/package/man...586/media/main with media_info/hdlist.cz Code:
ftp: Thanks again Pete |
urpmi.addmedia will download the hdlist.cz because the software could've (and in fact, probably did) change since the last time your downloaded it.
It may be a bit easier to download the synthesized hdlist. these are MUCH smaller, but dont include descriptions... |
OK.
I thought it might do something along those lines. I'll think about using the synthesis files in future... Thanks |
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