Mandriva (ex Mandrake) LE2005 hits FTP mirrors

ulteus writes "Only three days after the announcement, the full installation tree of Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005 is publicly available on a number of FTP mirrors. It provide more than 10,000 installable packages in RPM, and all the sources. For the first time, an x86-64 version is also provided in addition to the i586 version. And besides all the new features, it will install on your Xbox!"

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torrent here

[bedessen]

Mandriva-Linux-2005-Ltd-Edition-DVD.i586.iso.torre nt (alternate link) (tracker) (details)

(this is not the official torrent, as that requires club membership.)

Tips to upgrade

[InodoroPereyra]

If you have an older version installed, you can upgrade using urpmi. First add 10.2 sources from the control center. Then, you can upgrade everything from the software installer in the control center (select to see packages by upgrade availability). Or easier, as root from a console,

urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpm

I used --no-verify-rpm because I selected PLF sources for 10.2 and the contrib packages, and some of them have wrong (or no) signatures.

Warning: there is an official/10.2/ branch in the ftp mirrors, do not use it. It is broken, and it broke my Mandrake 10.1. You have to use the "devel" branch from the ftp mirrors, as explained in Mandriva's announcement.

After fixing manually the mess I got from the "official" upgrade, I pointed urpmi to the "devel" branch and everything went 100% smooth. Mandriva 10.2 looks very solid, no huge changes from 10.1 but nice and 95% polished (there is a rough edge here or there, nothing serious).

One more thing, after upgrading, you can add the latest kernel from the software installer.

easyurpmi

[dacarr]

The link for 10.2 does not yet appear on EasyURPMI. Might want to drop Trem a line and ask him to include your favorite mirror.