missing package
 

heyas

i am unable to install mandriva 2006 at all due to not having a -required- package

it keeps asking me for idconfig on my third cd, and no matter what i do, it would not install. even went into my windows boot to see if it was even on the cd
and it was not!!

how is anyone going to install mandriva if they dont include required files

You might have had a corrupt download, or when you burnt the disk it didn't write properly, so I'd check the md5sums of the disks and try burning it at a slower speed.

sorry im completly new to linux, this is my first install, whats the md5sums?
i was burning it at 8x, and my burner can go up to 12x (ya its pretty old hehe)

it was the only package that i had issues with as far as i could tell, im downloading the third iso as im typing and gunna reburn it

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...icle&artid=436

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5sum


Those links will tell you what an md5sum is and how to check it.

it's a way of checking the integrity of the file you downloaded.

the contents of an md5 file would look like this:

You would compare the weird string of characters to the other weird string of characters you get from running the md5sum like in the link and if they're the same, you have a complete file, if they're different, you didn't get the right file.

i checked the md5sum of both the the cd i had made and the newly downloaded cd3 iso
both md5sums were exactly d1495da2dbdcb7793ae4cd8cf70fd9d7

both download from 2 different mirrors

have you tried installing since you re-burnt at a lower speed?

if it still doesn't work, try using a different brand of CD-R.

i havent re-burnt it yet
if there the same, then it would be waste of cd-r to do it again :)
i looked at the new iso file, and the package is still not inside

could i use cd-rws? cus thats all i ahev now :(

i dont think its a burning issue, since the md5sum were the same between the burnt and iso, and sicne the package was still not in the iso

cds are cheap why not reburn at a slower speed to be safe.

i burned it to a cd-rw
and it did the same thing

like i said, this is most likly not a burning issue
it looks like they simply just forgot to put this package in

I checked both on the Powerpack DVD I downloaded with my club membership and on a main repo mirror listed at easyurpmi and there is no such package as idconfig so there's something funny going on here. Where and when did you download those CDs from? At what stage of the install does it ask for 'idconfig'? What is the exact error message it comes up with?

ahaha!! i was right :) that was exactly the problem

i downloaded the free cd isos, when it is installing packages it was asking me more my 3rd cd which is supposed to have ldconfig-2.3.5-5mdk.i586.rpm on it
well it kept failing sayign that this idconfig package couldnt be found

it seems that if i download this package seperately and add it to the iso image. it works!!!

so it looks like mandriva screwed up big time :) and all isos on every mirror are missing this file

idconfig or ldconfig? ldconfig definately exists - its a very important package - and its on both the DVD I have and the main mirrors. Can't speak for the 3CD download set though since I don't have it. Anyone else had this problem with the free download 3CD set?

FYI, I have 3CD iso set and ldconfig is on CD1 -- had install issues but nothing relating to ldconfig

Ian

md5sums has nothing to do with Linux, it's a method used for verification of transmitted data.
It's something any computer user who downloads software fro mthe internet should know.
There are plenty of windows programs to perform this task.

its ldconfig, which was on cd 3 for me

not sure why you guys have different stuff
guess they dont want people downloading the free version

This makes no sense, ldconfig is a basic tool. You can also retrieve it directly from the internet, just
search for a package here: rpmseek

Get an MD5Sum tool like this one: HashCalc 2.01 for WinXP (Freeware)
or this other one MD5 Checksum Verifier 1.2 XP, Shareware (15 days)

To see how it works, take any of them and verify the checksum of the zips. Md5sums are normally indicated in the download page, such as this one:
http://www.tucows.com/get/414080_155093

Here you can see that the md5 hash is:

MD5 Hash: c692af1c24f633dfe9e53719c5dd14d2

Now you should compare your downloaded ISOs with the md5sum given on the page you downloaded the ISOs from. If they differ, your ISOs are wrong, if they are the same, the failure is on another part.

i downloaded 2 isos from 2 different mirrors
they were the same when i checked the md5sums

i added the missing package into the 3rd iso and re-burned and the install completed without error
so i assumed this was an error of the person who put togther the isos and sent them to the mirrors

as far as i can see, my install is working just fine

Bet it is. Some ISOs are released with last-minutes changes and can be buggy.

The principal thing is to get a minimal working system and later you can get the rest of the stuff from the URPMI mirrors.