[Klug-general] Mandriva 2005 updates

[Michael. E. Rentell]

Mike,

I'm not surprised there were dozens of updates - that source is for 
Mandriva 2006, and you were running 2005LE, so you are now running a 
hybrid of 2006 and 2005LE, so some things might not work properly.

I suggest you go into MCC and delete all the sources for 2005LE, and 
then go to http://mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/ and get a complete set of 
urpmi sources for 2006, then from a root terminal do

urpmi.update -caf && urpmi --auto-select

That will fully upgrade you to 2006.

-- 
Regards
Margot


Thanks for the advice Margot. It has led me to investigate the console 
use of urpmi which I was uncertain of previously and now I know a bit 
more about Linux. All to the good.

What I am trying to avoid is upgrading any of my M2005 core features to 
M2006. For some reason which I am completely unable to fathom, I cannot 
make 2006 see my SCSI scanner. Mandriva 2005LE is happy to find it and 
to network it with saned and I don't want to lose that facility.  I 
actually use Linux in a productive office environment and the scanner is 
necessary.

So a straight upgrade to 2006 is something I'm trying to avoid. What I 
was hoping to do was to find the upgrade files for 2005 and use those 
but all the Mandrake/Mandriva ftp sites that I've investigated although 
admittedly only in UK (WarwickU is horribly slow) and The Netherlands 
(satisfyingly fast) seem to have withdrawn their 2005 upgrades. In their 
space is a short readme.txt saying that they have been transferred to 
the 'old' tree. But they haven't and that is a major disappointment.

Why would they want to do that? They have got all the older upgrades 
back to ver 7 in the old tree except 2005.

I think I shall now just wait until 2007 comes along on the cover of 
Linux Format (should be next month) and try it as an upgrade. If it 
screws up my scanner access I shall be back to square one. I wish I 
could work out why the scanner doesn't work, I've tried all the obvious 
'permissions problem' in both root and user. sane-find-scanner detects 
the scanner and says it is at /dev/sg0 but if I then try to use it with 
scanimage -L or Kooka nothing happens and when I run sane-find-scanner 
again it isn't there. Baffling.

I appreciate the advice - very many thanks.

MikeR
in Folkestone