I've just browsed the list to see if anyone is experienceing the same issues with urpmi and Software Manager as I am and I spotted David Robertson's comments. I'm so glad I'm not the only one.
I finally upgraded to 9.0 because I figured most of the bugs would be out and, for the most part, they are. But.... Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm...slowly and it wanted to take over the whole machine..but it worked. It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. Now it's three or four peices none of which are anywhere near as good as 8.2. The installation manager keeps telling me that uninstalled packages are already installed. KPackage at least reports that properly about installed packages and installs them correctly. But...and it's a big but...the Install Packages keeps blithely insisting I installed everything from all the CDs, which I haven't. As David said one of the joys of Mandrake up to 9.0 was ease of use and ease of setup. This does seem to be gone..right out the window! What I could do on one screen before with software manager now takes 4 and if I'm lucky, which I haven't been so far, it will work. Anyway, I'm back to essentially manually installing packages either from KPackage or the command line. Software Manager is worse than uselsess. ttfn John
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