Mandrake9.2 is out!

[Austin]

On 10/15/2003 11:12:44 AM, Elliott Chapin wrote:
> Please elaborate on this or point me to a reference. I ended up  
> blowing away my 9.0 because I didn't have enough disk space to do 9.1  
> as an update using my CheapBytes CDs. So I am hoping urpmi can  
> operate incrementally. I suppose order of packages is important.

Urpmi works almost exactly like apt-get.  I'm amazed how few people  
know about this, since Mandrake has been using it for years.

To add a new repository:
# urpmi.addmedia <name> <location>
where location can be an ftp, http, local, etc.
See the http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3 for a list of mirrors.

To update the repositories (local ones excluded):
# urpmi.update -a

To install a package, and all it's dependencies:
# urpmi <package name>

To remove a package:
# urpme <package name>

To upgrade the whole distro:
# urpmi --auto-select

All of this is explained at urpmi.org as well as $ man urpmi.

Note that on the mirrors, there are floppy images available if you want  
to install the whole distro by ftp or http or hd.

Austin
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