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Old 05-31-2004, 05:00 PM   #1
joebloe
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mandrake 10 free updates?


I installed mandrake 10 official and it won't auto update without me paying an annual subscription fee. Is this because I installed official instead of community? or is mandrake a pay-for-updates distribution? or is there a less automatic way to update that's free?
23 bucks a year is definitely reasonable, but if I can do it for free, that'd be preferable.
any ideas? thanx!
 
Old 05-31-2004, 05:22 PM   #2
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For joining the club, you get to support the distro/community. If you want free updating, have a look at EasyUrpmi - I think the paid for support means you get the updates quicker.
 
Old 10-03-2004, 12:22 PM   #3
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Here's what I did to schedule automatic updates for Mandrake 10.0. In /etc/cron.daily (or cron.weekly, whatever your desired schedule is) add a script to execute the following commands:

/usr/sbin/urpmi.update --update
/usr/sbin/urpmi --update --auto-select --auto

This updates the RPM database, checks for updates for any installed packages, and automatically installs any new dependencies. If you need to know how to add the script, edit a text file in that folder with vi or some editor to contain the above, and then make it executable by issuing chmod u+x <scriptname>.

Cheers.

Last edited by kalahari875; 06-26-2005 at 11:39 AM.
 
Old 10-03-2004, 09:49 PM   #4
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From KDE menu, System->Configuration->Packaging->Mandrake Update.

Thats how I do it, and its free

You just do it manually everyone once inna while
 
Old 10-03-2004, 11:52 PM   #5
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The only minor problems with the above (good) suggestions is that you are also missing they plethora of available software available for your release.

Check out: http://www.zebulon.org.uk/ for instructions on adding the other repositories to get all of the other contribs and things some of which are found in the powerpak release.
 
  


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