Hello, I'm still fairly new to Linux and Mandrake so bare with me please...
I'm running into the same problem after running the Mandrake update tool. The 'Configure Your Computer' is now removed from the menu. I was hoping it would be just a menu configuration problem but running drakconf from the console just returns "bash: drakconf: command not found". I followed the posted advise and tried "urpmi drakconf" and it returned another error;
Some package requested cannot be installed:
drakconf-10-0.7mdk.i586 (due to missing drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk.i586)
drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied perl-Glib[>= 1.021-3mdk]) (Y/n) y
Installing drakxtools of course didn't work (I used 'urpmi drakxtools') since perl-Glib seems to have been removed as well.
I ran 'urpmi perl' and 'urpmi perl-glib' and both returned the message 'Everything already installed'. I'm using Mandrake 10 and when I installed the updates it did say that in order to install some of them (I didn't take note of which ones) some items would have to be removed (I wish I took a note of which ones). I just went ahead with it because I figured installing security updates and patches would probably be important, I didn't really know what I was removing, and there were quite a few of various patches for the packages I've installed.
Any help on this will be very much appreciated! I can't find the package manager either so I've been installing RPMs using 'rpm -i' when I can, though most end up returning an error anyway...
Thanks!
Gram
**Update**
I managed to get perl-Glib and perl-GTK installed and I've gotten farther along but ran into this installing drakconf using 'urpmi --allow-force drakconf'. drakconf loads now though!
urpmi --allow-force drakconf
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (4 MB):
drakconf-10-0.7mdk.i586
drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk.i586
gurpmi-4.4.5-5mdk.noarch
harddrake-ui-10-34.2.100mdk.i586
userdrake-0.92-29mdk.i586
Is this OK? (Y/n) y
installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakconf-10-0.7mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/harddrake-ui-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/userdrake-0.92-29mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gurpmi-4.4.5-5mdk.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ##################################################
Installation failed:
file /usr/sbin/draksplash from install of drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk conflicts with file from package drakxtools-newt-10-0.16mdk
Try installation without checking dependencies? (y/N) y
Preparing... ##################################################
Installation failed:
file /usr/sbin/draksplash from install of drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk conflicts with file from package drakxtools-newt-10-0.16mdk
Try installation even more strongly (--force)? (y/N) y
Preparing... ##################################################
1:gurpmi ##################################################
2:drakconf ##################################################
3:harddrake-ui ##################################################
4:userdrake ##################################################
5:drakxtools ##################################################
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Not bad for a newbie I think
Thanks for reading this though, and hopefully this will be helpful for others!
Gram