Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was having with a few items (mainly kde 3.0.x) on 8.2, I was convinced to go ahead and go to 9.0 but to upgrade immediately to a Cooker kernel to avoid the 2.3.19 problems (supermount, usb). I have since learned that the Cooker kernels have new problems of their (particularly, it seems, with regards to usb and the atmel wireless driver). Then there are these problems with the software manager.
So much to look forward to (not). I get saddled with 9.0 on Monday (when the package will arrive). Has anyone looked into the possibility of forward-porting 8.2 stuff into 9.0? That is, eliminating the 9.0 software manager and compiling/installing the 8.2 software manager in its stead? As it is, with the Cooker kernel problems I am looking at having to build/use the 8.2 kernel to ensure my wireless device works as well as supermount. praedor On Sunday 22 December 2002 06:39 am, David Robertson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 23:15, Philip Webb wrote: > > 021221 John Wilson wrote: > > > The installation manager keeps telling me > > > that uninstalled packages are already installed. > > > > you have to do something like 'urpmi-update' or '-rebuild'. > > That never worked for me, nor did rebuilding the rpm database, which was > another suggestion. Having had a bit of a mental breakdown the other > day, out of sheer frustration, following which I posted a bit of a rant > (apologies for that, everyone) I solved the problem by doing a really > minimal reinstall, removing the CD installation sources from Software > Manager, and then replacing them with a variety of sources configured > from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php ( a great utility, in my > opinion). I then installed the latest versions of everything I wanted. > Things have been fine since - and I've even now got mplayer installed, > which started this whole thing off for me. > > David
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