At 10:32 AM 6/28/2001, Ron Stodden wrote:
>Christopher Kolar wrote:
> > Hello everyone. We are putting an 8.0 box through its paces and
> > are having a problem getting Mandrake Update to work. After
> > selecting the packages that I want to update I get an error message
> > telling me that it can't fulfill my wishes, then lists the package
> > names and tells me that they are already installed.
>
>MandrakeUpdate is part of Mandrake 7.2 and not part of Mandrake 8.0,
>where it has been replaced by the more functional Software Manager
>which has been given a desktop icon. 7.2 and 8.0 are NOT compatible.
>Ron. [au]
Thanks Ron. My 8.0 install includes an item under
K::Configuration::Packages::MandrakeUpdate which runs a program that looks
just like SM, except that it does not work when it comes to installing the
packages. Running SM off of the desktop is working nicely. Cheers,
--chris
