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Old 11-23-2003, 08:49 AM   #1
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urpmi HOWTOs

I finally found some good links for using Mandrake's command line package manager, urpmi

urpmi mini-HOWTO
All You Ever Wanted to Know About Urpmi But Never Dared Asking Before

HTH
 
Old 11-23-2003, 10:08 AM   #2
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Funny thing is that I went to my Mandrake control center, installed the URPMI stuff, and when I go to console and type 'urpmi', there is no such thing.
 
Old 11-23-2003, 10:43 AM   #3
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Were you root? If so, is /usr/sbin in your path?
Code:
Sun Nov 23 11:39am fancy@tinwhistle ~$ su -
Password: 
Sun Nov 23 11:37 AM root@tinwhistle ~ # whereis urpmi
urpmi: /usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia /usr/sbin/urpmi /usr/sbin/urpmi.removemedia /usr/sbin/urpmi.update /etc/urpmi /usr/share/man/man8/urpmi.8.bz
 
Old 11-23-2003, 08:15 PM   #4
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This site is also pretty good.
http://www.zebulon.org.uk/
 
Old 11-27-2003, 12:44 AM   #5
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This one is good too

http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/
 
  


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