anyone upgraded mandrake 8.1 to 9.0?

[Matt Luettgen]

rpmdrake is usually more broken than rpm/urpmi...to update your system
here is what I would do...first add online media for updates

http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php is a great tool for finding
ftp sites AND using the appropriate command...heres what I came up with

 urpmi.addmedia contrib
ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/ with
../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz

urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://plf.time4t.net/pub/plf/9.0 with hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia --update updates
ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS/ with
../base/hdlist.cz

Those 3 commands do different things...first one adds contrib second
adds plf (see website for what plf is) last one adds the update media.

Next you'll want to update all media, urpmi.update -a

Now to do the update do urpmi --auto-select it will churn away while it
compares packages and what have you, fetch the packages, install and
all should be well.

Good luck,

ML

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:42:10 -0600
"Jonathan Hutchins" <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:

> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Eric Gilliland" <patzeric at yahoo.com>
> 
> > Has anyone here upgraded Mandrake 8.1 to 9.0?
> 
> I did.  Things went smoothly, but I haven't used it hardly at all. 
> The main thing I've done is spend hours trying to get the stupid GUI
> RPM manager to update packages for bug fixes and security problems. 
> It either can't find the updates or can't find a necessary dependency,
> so I've pretty much given up.
> 
> I poked around with some sound and video tools and was unimpressed -
> things didn't work, wouldn't access most file types, etc.  One of the
> systems I have it on has a USB camera, and while there were programs
> that offered to import photos from digital cameras, they only offered
> serial interfaces.  I tried to update them in hopes that that feature
> had been added, but the RPM manager failed to find them again.
> 
> I run RedHat on the servers I manage, and have bought subscriptions to
> up2date, which I find works very well.  The only complaint I have is
> that RedHat is it's typical lazy self when it comes to updates - their
> RPMs are often several months behind current releases, although
> they're pretty good about getting security fixes out in a timely
> manner.
> 
> 
> 
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