I must sound like a broken record here but this is really getting me down. I got fed up with all the difficulties installing software, being unable to run mozilla as a user, my menus suddenly disappearing, that I reinstalled LM 9.0 (again!)
This time, I didn't update during installation. Again, I added extra software sources from the club's mirror lists, for contribs, club contribs, commercial apps and PLF. These sources seemed to install OK in urpmi and updating them doesn't give any errors. So, I go to install some stuff - some programs, no problem. Some programs (including mplayer again), I get the "everything already installed" error. So I run "urpmi.update cdrom8" as suggested on the errata page and that solves it sometimes, but not others. "urpmi.update -a" doesn't help either, nor does "rpm --updatedb" I've managed to install some stuff, but not others. I'm doing this on two computers and the software I can get varies between the two. MPlayer won't install on my laptop but will on my desktop. If I try to do it from a terminal, it tells me that various files aren't available - but they are, 'cos I've just downloaded them on my other computer from exactly the same sources. I used to use Mandrake because it seemed easier than the other distros and I then defected to debian because it was the only distro I was capable of customising enough for a particular machine, which I no longer have. I thought with 9.0 I'd give it another go but I'm about to give up again: not because of particular issues or bugs but because it just seems totally unpredictable. When I boot up tomorrow, what will be Tuesday's error? And Monday's problems will probably have gone away. I think I'll go to bed now because I'm getting really p****d off! Thanks to everyone who's tried to help - any further suggestions would be appreciated. Rant over and good night! David -- "The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." (Paul Fix)
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