Mandrake Community10.1 rpms not installing

spoody_goon · 05-21-2005, 04:41 PM

I am using mandrake community10.1 and I am unable to use rpmdrake effectively. It's says its downloading the packages but it does it in about 2 seconds making me think it didn't get them at all. Then I get a bad signature message (probably because it is not there). Also I can't get the updates medium to work, it tells me there is an "error retrieving packages"
I believe my rpm database is corrupt I think....Maybe...?
I have used a variety of urpmi set ups and it still don't work. I'm not sure what information is needed to trouble shoot this problem please advise.
Thanks.

reddazz · 05-22-2005, 02:45 AM

You may need to update your urpmi sources and then retry to install. Do as root, "urpmi.updatemedia -a". By the way, you may need to change your urpmi repositories from 10.1 community to 10.1 official because when official is released community stops getting any form of update/upgrade.

spoody_goon · 05-22-2005, 10:01 AM

Hi reddazz
I have been working on this and removed the media before however I will do it again and change to an official repositories. I am using easy urpmi and a mirror in wisconson that has worked for me many times before.
Here are my results:

Code:

urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors.../main_updates/ with media_info/hdlist.cz
added medium updates
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "updates"...
    ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors...info/hdlist.cz
found probed hdlist (or synthesis) as media_info/hdlist.cz
...retrieving done
examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.updates.cz]
writing list file for medium "updates"
examining pubkey file of "updates"...
...imported key 22458a98 from pubkey file of "updates"
performing second pass to compute dependencies

examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.contrib.cz]
built hdlist synthesis file for medium "contrib"
examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.main.cz]
built hdlist synthesis file for medium "main"
examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.updates.cz]
built hdlist synthesis file for medium "updates"
found 0 headers in cache
removing 0 obsolete headers in cache
write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg]

I will try a different mirror and put the results in my next post.
Thanks

spoody_goon · 05-22-2005, 10:40 AM

Ok, I know where my problem was, I needed to clean out my cashe for urpmi. I had somehow gotten a few files with bad signatures and other problems that I don't know about. Anyways I cleaned out /var/cache/urpmi/rpms and life is good again.
I did switch mirrors to the secsup.org mirror and that also seem to be of some help.
Thanks much