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Mandrakesoft Releases 10.1 Beta1

Posted by timothy on from the screenshot-extravaganza dept.

Theanswriz42 writes "MandrakeSoft has announced the release of Mandrake Linux 10.1 Beta1 which is available from one of the many mirrors or from bittorrent. xorg is now the standard and there are many other changes from the previous version of Mandrake Linux. Screenshots are available here."

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  1. Mandrake is good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yay Linux, boo Microsoft.

    There, I got half of the comments out of the way.

  2. Re:Yum Frontend by pllewis · · Score: 5, Informative

    go URPMI. This is the one reason that I still stick with mandrake over suse. URPMI is great. Add a little plf to the mix, and your all set. I get 95% of what I need via urpmi. # urpmi mplayer # urpmi freevo DONE!!!! updates # urpmi.update -a # urpmi --auto-select Other then the x.org thing, doesn't look any different then my 10 distro. Never been a big fan of apt-get for rpm based disto's. I've had a couple of bad sources that have really screwed up my system. To configure urpmi, I go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org, select my distro, choose my source/updates and I don't touch my cd's for software again. From what I've heard, SUSE may be going the way of urpmi soon. They've got beta's out there and source directories.

  3. Re:Upgrading using URPMI by opkool · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't do this!

    A safer way [Note 1]:

    1. Exit graphical environment and go to console (Ctrl-Alt-F1)
    2. login as root and switch to runlevel 3 (telinit 3)
    3. urpmi.removemedia -a
    4. go to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and set up sources for the release you want to upgrade to
    5. urpmi --test urpmi (test if urpmi's upgrade works) [Note 2]
    6. urpmi urpmi (if you get no errors in previous step)
    7. urpmi --auto --auto-select --test (we want to make sure upgrade will work. If you have non-official rpms, this could cause trouble. Write down offending rpms/files, remove them and try again) [Note 3]
    8. urpmi --auto --auto-select
    9. urpmi kernel
    10. reboot

    [Note 1] This could not work if:
    * you have used "--force" before to install packages
    * you install rpms from untrusted origin
    * you install rpms not specific for Mandrake
    * you install with "./configure && make && make install" instead of using "./configure && make && checkinstall"

    [Note 2]: the --test option is great because:

    i. it downloads all needed rpm-packages
    ii. it tests the installation and provide quite clear error messages
    iii. it does *not* delete downloaded rpm-packages
    iv. it does *not* change your current programs.
    v. when happy and you do not use "--test", as all the packages are already downloaded, your upgrade takes less time.

    [Note 3]: If you get a message like "Packge foobar cannot be installed because it conflicts with file /usr/lib/foo-bar-0.1.2.so.3", remove the package with offending file. Which package contains offending file? Type "rpm -qf /usr/lib/foo-bar-0.1.2.so.3" and remove the package with "urpme offendingpackage". After completing the upgrade, install new version of package with "urpmi offendingpackage" if needed/

    Peace!
    (upgrading Mandrake with urpmi since 8.1)