Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Thanks for help with Mandrake packages
From: lazone (lazone_AT_pi.be)
Date: Sun Jul 25 2004 - 19:34:21 EEST
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
>
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