Originally posted by: Enfer Singe
Originally posted by: itxweather
Hello again,
Apologies, forgot to ask, what exactly is Easy Urpmi, is it used for unpacking or installing rpm's (not that I know what they are right now anyway but am keen to learn!).
Thank you.
Best Regards.
In mandrake, there is a system called "urpmi". Basically when you want to install pretty much any program, in the console, while logged in as root (type su, which stands for switch user, to login as root), you would type, urpmi package name. For example, if I wanted to install firefox, I would type in: "urpmi mozilla-firefox" (without the quotes). That is basically cliff notes of its use, there is much more to it though. For example, uninstalling a program is made very easy, as all you have to do is type "urpme mozilla-firefox".
Now that you hopefully have a slight understanding of how to use it, here is a basic summary of how it works. When you type in urpmi whatever, it looks through all its media sources to find the packages you are looking for (the only sources that are pre-installed are the cd's that you used to install mandrake.) Basically what Easy Urpmi does is add web sources to your list. This way, when you urpmi something you can search for it on the web and have a much larger database of rpm's and wont have to put your cd's in everytime you want to install something. This also ensures that the software you install is up to date. You can also alltogether remove the cd's ass media so it automatically searches the web.
Phew, hope you got all that . If not just ask, or pm me so I don't have to get rediculously off the thread's topic. BTW, as I said in an earlier post, I ordered my ubuntu disks before it was even released nad have pretty much given up hope on recieving them. Let me know if you ever get yours. Oh and also an rpm is comprable to a windows .exe, and a .tar file (such as .tar.gz) is the linux version of a .zip.
I hope this all helped, and after all this, you better go with Mandrake! Just kidding, but if you do a google image search, there are screenshots of pretty much every linux install, and ubuntu has an illustrated guide on their website, so you can use those to help you decide which you would be most comfortable installing.