[Cialug]mandrake update

[Dan Hockey]

Dan Hockey wrote:

> David Champion wrote:
>
>> Dan Hockey wrote:
>>
>>> I have four boxes runing mdk10.1 power pack ed and they all seem to 
>>> have the same problem of not being able to update and yes I've tried 
>>> several different(us) mirrors. Is there a reason why all four 
>>> computers started having problems at the same time?
>>> -dh
>>
>>
>>
>> What package is it failing on? About a week ago they had an issue 
>> with the cpio package with a bad dependency on rmt and tar, which has 
>> been fixed.
>>
>> If you do an "urpmi.update -a", then try to update with "urpmi 
>> --update --auto-select" it may fix it.
>>
>> If that doesn't fix it, you should verify that your urpmi mirror is 
>> being updated. I usually do this by plugging the url into a browser 
>> (you can find the url by peeking at /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg), then 
>> compare the latest dates to the security announcement dates.
>>
>> -dc
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> I've got one box fix and working now. one box was scrambled so bad its 
> now running sarge with kde;) The problem child(my laptop) I thought 
> was working until I tried to use the mandrake control center now which 
> seems to have gone MIA. I removed mozilla and reinstalled it, which 
> fixed the bookmark problem-could this be related some how?
> -dh
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duh.. I just answered my own question its named drakconf, that part is 
now work ing but the software management part is missing.
-dh