On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:25 -0900, ejbjr wrote: > Is it even possible to download a Mandrake RPM? You should never have to. man urpmi > Every time I try to download an audio package from a Mandrake repository > it complains that I don't have the necessary dependency packages > installed on my internet machine, and asks me to insert one of more of > the Mandrake 9.2 discs into my cdrom drive. urpmi again > Is there any way to download these packages so I can burn them to a CD > and bring them home to my audio machine? Sure. Just download and burn them. But don't expect packages build for Mandrake 10 to run properly on 9.2 or whatever. > Or maybe repackage them from > the installed copy? no. > My audio machine at home is not on the internet, and never will be due > to the presence of unreleased audio tracks - no network connection is > the most reliable firewall ever created. You could copy all the rpms you need to a CD or DVD, then run gendistrib, then urpmi.addmedia, and you could use it to install RPMs on any machine. Austin
