Hi Shlomo, On Friday 30 July 2010 09:42:11 Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Let me first say that I usually do a clean install rather than an update, > so I'm a bit hesitant about this. So here's my question. > > mdkonline which usually notifies me of RPM package updates, notified me > that a new version (2010.1) is available. When I choose to upgrade, I'm > given 2 options - Free and PowerPack. Since my original installation of > 2010.0 (and previous versions) was with Mandriva One, I'm worried that > choosing Free, will cause problems with proprietary software such as Flash > and NVidia drivers. > > What should I do?
You can find the packages for Flash and the Nvidia drivers on the non-free repository and/or in PLF - http://plf.zarb.org/ . Assuming something will break, you can always install it using urpmi this way. So you can safely install Mandriva Free. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
