[plug] Ncurses-devel for Mandrake 10

Innis Cunningham innisc at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 13 14:54:02 WST 2005



  Michael writes
>
>Sure, this should be easy to do. I'd assume you're using 10 if it was 
>installed at the installfest. All you need to do is to add some sources for 
>online content. There are a couple of ways you can do this, but the best 
>would be to download and install the following package manually.
>
>Download this:
>
>http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/urpmi.setup-0.4.4-4mdk.noarch.rpm
>
>Then do a 'rpm -i urpmi.setup-0.4.4-4mdk.noarch.rpm' as root.
>
>Now you can run urpmi.setup as root which gives you a nice little 
>interface. Select 'Add manually urpmi media' and tab across to 'Do' and hit 
>enter. Now for a name, call it main or something. Don't check that update 
>thingy. For the path, paste the following:
>
>http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/
>
>For the relative path thing below, put in './synthesis.hdlist.cz'. Then tab 
>across to OK and hit enter. It will now download and update the media. Now 
>you can run urpmi kernel-source.

Thank you very much Michael for your patience in working me through this.
The above presented the packages I needed and allowed me to install them
through the rpmdrake gui.
Now we will see if the Nvidia driver installer is happy.

Thanks again

Cheers
Innis





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