On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:06, Jason Williams wrote: > Evening everyone. > > I just installed Mandrake 9.2 via FTP onto one of our servers to test out. > We are looking for a replacement OS for our servers. One thing I wanted to > learn is some of the Mandrake specific tools, specifically urpmi and msec. > > I was working with urpmi trying to learn its functions and have a couple of > questions. > > Is there a way to list the packages that are available to download? > > For instance, I was playing around and typed: > > urpmi samba > > It gave me a list of dependencies, which is nice, but then said it was > going to install samba 2.2.8a. Is there a way to grab the 3.0 version?
Only if it's on one of the mirrors you are accessing. Then it would give you a choice and build dependencies from there. I'm not sure who/if it's done yet for 9.2. > > I'd like a way to see what I have available, through the command line. > > Secondly, is there a way with urpmi to see what versions of the software I > have? I know I can with rpm -qa |grep <package>. Can you do this with urpmi? > urpmf /path/to/some/file will tell you the files parent. But AFAIK it's still not doing the queries quit right (all intended features are not there yet). However urpmq samba for example tells you what you have installed just like rpm ...... does. > That should be about it for now... Just for help urpmi.org is a collection of docs and explanations. > > Learning the ropes here. > > Jason > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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