[NBLUG/talk] urmpi mini-howto

[Warren Raquel]

Anyone who uses Mandrake should use this program, though. If I'm not 
mistaken there is also a gui interface. Either way I've been very 
impressed with it in my experience.

augie wrote:
> Warren Raquel wrote:
> 
>>Last I saw this was installed by default on the last couple of Mandrake
>>systems. I liked it a lot but from what I read it was Mandrake specific.
>>Does it work for other RPM dependant distros?
> 
> 
> whoops! sorry, i didn't realize it was so mandrake specific. the source
> is perl, and is available here:
> 
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/urpmi.html
> 
> in source-rpm style. the other source package i think you would need is
> the rpmtools package:
> 
> http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=rpmtools&submit=Search+...
> 
> which seems to include some executables, a man page, and a perl module.
> 
> of course i can't say whether mandrake and other distro packages are
> written differently such that this still wouldn't work.
> 
> augie.
> 
> p.s. i'll email the author and see what he has to say about urpmi on
> other distros.
> 
> 

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