Paradox
11-21-2001, 07:11 PM
Hi
I've just come back to mandrake from debian, and I'm having some trouble with urpmi and their package manager.
Speciffically I cant get it to do anything I want!
Anyway, I was wondering if anybody could give me step by step instructions on how to:
Install texstar's prelinked version of KDE from: ftp://ftp.eastwind.net/pub/mirrors/texstar/Mandrake-8.1-i686
It would be good if I could add this as a source to urpmi so whenever I did urpmi --auto-select it would check to see if they had a new version of KDE out, and install it ... but of course, it doesnt seem to work. I've copied the RPM's I want to my hard drive, and configured the directory they are in as a source, but evey time I try and install, it just gives me a massive list of dependancy problems. I'm running mandrake 8.0, and I know they are for 8.1, but I read it should still work. Just to be sure I added a ftp mirror of 8.1 as a source, so it could get anything it wanted, but it still gave me a huge list of dependancy problems (But, only after it had been downloading RPM's all night mind you ... arghhhh, why couldnt it just warn me before hand?!?)
So, simply, walking me through it step, by small newbie step, how do I install texstars kde? What sources do I need to add, what buttons to click, etc, etc.
And, how do I upgrade my gcc to version 3.0 so I can compile mplayer? Given the problems I have had installing KDE (3 days of that dammed package manager downloading various RPMS and still no new KDE!) I'm a bit hesatant to try.
At the moment, I'm pretty pissed of at urpmi, and feeling that apt-get is vastly superior, but ... well, I really want mandrake to work out for me, because it seems way more of a desktop OS than debian. I realise that there is a very high chance my problems are with this particular users in-experence, rayther than urpmi, so I was really hopeing some of you guys would be able to get this to work out for me.
Thanks in advance.
- Luke
I've just come back to mandrake from debian, and I'm having some trouble with urpmi and their package manager.
Speciffically I cant get it to do anything I want!
Anyway, I was wondering if anybody could give me step by step instructions on how to:
Install texstar's prelinked version of KDE from: ftp://ftp.eastwind.net/pub/mirrors/texstar/Mandrake-8.1-i686
It would be good if I could add this as a source to urpmi so whenever I did urpmi --auto-select it would check to see if they had a new version of KDE out, and install it ... but of course, it doesnt seem to work. I've copied the RPM's I want to my hard drive, and configured the directory they are in as a source, but evey time I try and install, it just gives me a massive list of dependancy problems. I'm running mandrake 8.0, and I know they are for 8.1, but I read it should still work. Just to be sure I added a ftp mirror of 8.1 as a source, so it could get anything it wanted, but it still gave me a huge list of dependancy problems (But, only after it had been downloading RPM's all night mind you ... arghhhh, why couldnt it just warn me before hand?!?)
So, simply, walking me through it step, by small newbie step, how do I install texstars kde? What sources do I need to add, what buttons to click, etc, etc.
And, how do I upgrade my gcc to version 3.0 so I can compile mplayer? Given the problems I have had installing KDE (3 days of that dammed package manager downloading various RPMS and still no new KDE!) I'm a bit hesatant to try.
At the moment, I'm pretty pissed of at urpmi, and feeling that apt-get is vastly superior, but ... well, I really want mandrake to work out for me, because it seems way more of a desktop OS than debian. I realise that there is a very high chance my problems are with this particular users in-experence, rayther than urpmi, so I was really hopeing some of you guys would be able to get this to work out for me.
Thanks in advance.
- Luke