Hello,

I am still a newbie and I just got Mandrake 9.2 installed. However, as I have read on many sites, when I did the online update, it did not download anything.

I want to get the latest updates, and if I am understanding everything, I need to use Mandrake Update for this.

I went into the Softare Manager and added a new one. For the path, I put the following:
mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/updates/9.2/

and then in the relative path to hdlist, I put "base/hdlist.cz". I have tried this with every mirror that is listed in the Mandrake mirrors site and I still can not get it to work.

After I put all the info in, it either says that the hdlist could not be found or it downloads it and then says that it could not find an hdlist.

Can someone please explain to me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!

By the way, I put the ftp:// in front of the mandrake.redbox...
but it would not let me post it, so I had to remove that part.

Hi.

Here's the easiest most painless way to configure your sources. Go to Easy URPMI and follow the directions. When you are done, it will give you some text to copy, so copy it into the clipboard. What it is giving you is the commandline instructions with everything automagically set up.

Open up a console, and "su" into root. Then paste. After that, you should be set!

I've run into similar problems - I've been trying to reach that same site for the past two days with no luck, the entire domain seems to be gone, and every damned site on the net I look at just tells me to go to that site. Is there a list of rpm sites somewhere out there that isn't just a link to that (now gone) page?

I just checked it and its working for me... sorry, I know that's not of much help to you

Good news though, there is an alternate solution. If you join the MandrakeClub they offer a very similar service. In fact, I think that one is based on the other.

There are lots of easy urpmi mirrors about. Do a google search.

I did do a google search, and all I got were a crap-load of pages with links to plf.zarb.org, which is still inaccessible. The only mirror I found was specific to 9.0 and only lists sties in New Zealand, which are kinda hard to connect to from Canada.

At this rate, I might HAVE to join Mandrake Club. But where am I going to get all my PLF decoders?

Here are the commands, I chose different mirrors for each type. Hopefully this helps you out.

urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ft.../Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors...2/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
urpmi.addmedia plf http://mandrakeusers.com/PLF/mandrake/9.2 with hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/M...ates/9.2/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz

Thanks, but I know how to set up URPMI....it's getting site URL's and figuring out where the .cz files are that's the problem. I tried the sites you mentioned and only one worked right, a second was full (and usually is) and the other two just returned bad .cz info of some sort.

Okay, PLF works, I just made a boo-boo. The contrib directory is wrong:

urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors...Mandrake/RPMS2 with ../base/hdlist2.cz

the directory you listed does have RPMs in it, but it doesn't work for the .cz file given, and I can't find the correct one.

Nope, that isn't right either

Before doing a urpmi.addmedia, paste the address into a browser and see if you can get to the location (and the response time doesn't suck). I've had good luck with the Austrian and French sites. Remember too, that at certain times of the day, they may be full up and can't do any more connections. Do the name prefix so that instead of addmedia contrib, you do addmedia Acontrib, Bcontrib, Ccontrib, etc. so that you can set up multiple locations and then check and uncheck as needed. Contingency planning.

You're making a mistake 'figuring out' where the .cz files are. It's a relative path, so use whatever is provided by easy urpmi.

Easy URPMIseems to be back now, so it's redundant, but the problem was that without it there was no source for URPMI sites on the net I could find.

I didn't have the .cz files wrong, because Mandrake successfully downloads them...but in the case mirror.cs.wisc.edu the files don't seem to precisely match the directories...when I download it tells me to update.

Thanks a lot BigVoice. That website it the best thing ever. It makes it so easy. I really appreciate you helping me out with this one. I am in the process of doing the download now. So far, I think everything is working great.

Thanks again!

Ok, I typed in three commands:

urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://raven.cslab.vt.edu/pub/linux/m...2/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/PLF/mandrake/9.2 with hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://raven.cslab.vt.edu/pub/linux/m...ates/9.2/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz

and each one's last couple of lines said something to the effect of

...retrieving done
examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.updates.cz]
writing list file for medium "updates"
examining pubkey file of "updates"...
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]

Now, I have two questions.

1) Does that mean that the update completed successfully?
2) Should I have included the source main?

Thanks for all your help!