I broke my Mandrake

brokendreams · 08-22-2003, 04:04 PM

Heh.

I can't get drake control center up at all. It says it ain't there.

I tried to install some updated rpms, all having to do with drakextools, drake conf, hardrake... I am trying to get my internet up, and I was told I should update these...

The installations failed on the packages, and it broke the control center.

Now, I can't seem to overwrite my existing Mandrake 9.1 install, because the bootloader (floppy) says that I need to change disks and try again. I do this, and no luck.

Any suggestions?

kundor · 08-22-2003, 04:34 PM

Can't you use bootable CD's to reinstall?

try (as root) "rpm -e drakconf" (which removes) and then "urpmi drakconf" to get back to the default. Unless you've setup urpmi to get packages from ftp servers, it'll ask for a Mandrake install cd.

acid_kewpie · 08-22-2003, 04:36 PM

"broke" isn't really much of a help trying to fnid out what's wrong... please provide more information abuot what actually goes wrong.

also please use more useful thread titles, thanks.

jschiwal · 08-22-2003, 08:39 PM

The program that actually runs is '/usr/sbin/drakconf.real'.
If you can find it there try entering in a shell:
kdesu /usr/sbin/drakconf.real

If there is another problem which causes the program not to run,
you often get a description of what the problem was by starting the program from the shell. This can eliminate a lot of guess work.

Tec1 · 09-05-2003, 03:53 PM

I am also having problems with MCC and drakconf. When I enter "rpm -e drakconf in a terminal I get "package drakconf is not installed". When I then enter "urpmi drakconf" I get the message "bash: urpmi: command not found". I am in the terminal window as root (su & password) but cannot get any response to urpmi.
Any help appreciated.

kundor · 09-05-2003, 04:33 PM

Try "urpme drakconf" instead, that should automatically search, I should have suggested that in the first place.

But if somehow urpmi isn't there or isn't in your path, something is wrong. Try typing "echo $PATH" (as root). If /usr/sbin is not listed, do "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin"
then try again.

WhiteChedda · 09-05-2003, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
"broke" isn't really much of a help trying to fnid out what's wrong... please provide more information abuot what actually goes wrong.

also please use more useful thread titles, thanks.

Do you always act like that or just on forums?

Tec1 · 09-06-2003, 07:47 AM

I had no luck with "urpme drakconf" but give below a copy of "echo PATH"
[stan@localhost stan]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost stan]# urpme drakconf
bash: urpme: command not found
[root@localhost stan]# echo $PATH
/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
[root@localhost stan]#

Any further suggestions as to where I go from here appreciated.

afrog · 09-06-2003, 08:50 AM

I would suggest loading the CD that has the urpm package, you will have to search for it since I don't know which CD it would be on most likely the first ( I installed off a DVD ). Then just use rpm to install that. Once you get that installed the other suggestions should work.

Tec1 · 09-06-2003, 10:12 AM

I have a package "urpmi-4.2-33mdk noarch.rpm" on CD1 and if this is the right one could you please give me some guidance on how to install this without MCC.

Thanks again

afrog · 09-12-2003, 11:48 PM

I am a bit suprised at the noarch, I would have expected to see i586 in place of no arch.