Well I have to posting here as well and I need help please from you gentlemen.I got CD`s from Mandriva Linux Edition 2005 1.2 and 3CD`s so far so good it works,but the 4th CD is a update CD.
I`m asking I like it to use the update and I insert Update CD into CD-RW,nothing happen.
What I`m doing wrong?


Tnx schneemann

You need to add it to your urpmi source tree. You can do this multiple ways:

In a terminal window (as root) type "urpmi.addmedia --update file://mnt/cdrom/<path to hdlist file on cd>"

-- OR --

in the Mandrake Control Center, select Software Management, Media Manager. Select "Add...", and for media type, use "Local Files" (update_source wants a mirror to an update server on the net). Type "Update" for the name, browse the path to the cd directory containing rpms, and it should automatically find the realative path to the hdlist.

If you have broadband, the preferred method for getting updates is to setup urpmi with mirror sites on the internet, as the update cd is usually out of date shortly after distribution. Follow the easy guide at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. It will walk you through adding internet sources for everything, including packages not found in the normal distributions.

Tnx GrueMaster I was that web page http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. it is very good one it`s update but not KDE why?I like to update kde or upgrade how you do that.Is there other ways to install kde easy wayHmmmm?

If you are refering to the new KDE 3.5, it was just released last week. Give it about a week, and it should show up on Mandriva's Cooker repositories (area for next release development).

Since you have Mandriva 2005, why not just upgrade to 2006? There is a detailed posting on how to do this with urpmi on this forum.

How many times I have to upgrade it?.

It really depends on what you are trying to do. If your system is working ok, and you just want the latest updates for that release, just add the update source to urpmi (as documented on easyurpmi.zarb.org), and update the kde packages.

If you want to stay current, you'll need to upgrade the distribution about once every 9-12 months. If you want bleeding edge development, you will want to use the cooker repository and upgrade at least monthly, if not more often.

If you like everything the way it is, don't upgrade anything. Nothing says that you must install every patch that comes along. Most of them are security patches that really only affect multiuser environments where multiple users access a given system either by console or remote, and the patches are closing security holes. If you are using this as your home desktop system, all you really need to do is enable the firewall between your system and the internet in the Mandrake Control Center, and you will be far more secure than certain mainstream os's. Personally, I have a firewall running Mandrake 10.1, a server running Mandrake 8.2 (uptime of 420 days), a desktop running 10.1 (will be upgrading this week when I install my new SATA drive), a laptop running 2006, and a new system for my son with 2006 installed.

My server has never had a glitch in it, and the last time it went down was because I moved my computer room from one end of the house to the other. Before that, it was online since 2002.