On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 10:20:29PM -0900, ejbjr wrote: > Thanks for the help. Apparently 'urpmi' is the real tool under > 'rpmdrake' (the avoid-the-evil-command-line Mandrake GUI for package > installation). Boy, wouldn't it be nice if we had a search engine that > could take a description of what we want to do, and suggest a list of > possibly interesting manual pages, html links, PDF documents, etc. I've > sometimes spent days with Yahoo/Google scanning thousands of irrelavent > pages to find the info I want. I've gotten a lot more useful info about > linux in general on this mailing list by accident than I have > searching. Unfortunately, I have limited time to deal with email lists. > Maybe we need a search engine like Yahoo, which only finds linux-related > documentation pages (I know I'm dreaming). > i'm new on this list so maybe this has been written already, but if you use mandrake, urpmi is the install tool you need. go to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php where you can add additional software sources for mandrake 9.x and 10 to your system (plf and contrib repositories are very cool and a must have!). follow the instructions on the page. I installed and cleared dependencies of a lot of interesting audio progs this way in less than 2 minutes ;) also, interesting docs about mandrake and the use of it can be found at http://mandrakeuser.org/docs/index.html and don't forget alt.os.mandrake ;) regards, kmd > e. j. branagan > The MUSE - Nashville, TN >
