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From: HawkEye on 8 Feb 2005 14:43 Amund wrote: > You have to find any mirror of Thacs, and configure your system to use this > media with urpmi.addmedia command as described on the web pages. Like this: > > urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms > http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/thac/10.1/RPMS with hdlist.cz > > I think some of the packages from Thacs depends on packages from plf and > from the official mandrake "updates", and you should have installation > media for "main" and "contrib". You can generate the urpmi.addmedia string > here: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. > To get a list of the medias you have innstalled, just run mandrake.update, > or you can see it in drakconf. > > Now you can use urpmi or rpmdrake to install packages. > > Thacs is updated daily with new packages for the current Mandrake release. > To get an updates list of the packages: > > urpmi.update thacs.rpms > > And you can run urpmi.update for your plf and updates medias as well. To get > updates lists for all of your medias: > urpmi.update -a > > To upgrade kde, you can try to upgrade any packages like this: > > urpmi kdebase > > Or you can just try to upgrade everything: > > urpmi --auto-select > > Thacs provides kde 3.3.2 for Mandrake 10.1. > You might get problems with dependendies when you upgrade kde from Thacs. I > had to remove some packages like korganizer, before i was able to run urpmi > --auto-select. > You can remove packages with urpme. Like this: > urpme korganizer > > Just remember witch packages you have removed. When you have updated KDE, > you can reinstall them with urpmi. Like this: > urpmi korganizer > > It might be very tricky to manage the dependendies the first time you run > "urpmi --auto-select", after adding the Thacs media. But later, when you > run daily updates with urpmi.update and urpmi --auto-select, it seems to be > no problem. > > > It seems like you can find KDE 3.3.1 under the Mandrake mirrors, in the > devel/testing/Mandrakeclub/10.1/i586 directory. I have not tried it. But i > guess you can install the media this way: > urpmi.addmedia ClubTesting > ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/testing/Mandrakeclub/10.1/i586 > with hdlist.cz > > Amund Hi, Thanks for the advice. I already have Thacs configured but the problem is I can't see the KDE stuff because it is in a subdirectory (I assume that is the problem anyway). Just hope my urpmi isn't broke that is all :/ -- Regards Neil Registered Linux User 324599 |