[oclug]brownie points to mandrake

[Sebastien Routier]

Yes I know apt-get is great, but if you are on Mandrake try "urpmi".

Allow me to paraphrase:

"Here's where it got really interesting, and I fell in love with Mandrake!
:-)  With a relatively minimal system, many of the applications I was
used to using just weren't there.
urpmi xmms
....boom......xmms and its dependencies magically appear on my system.
Let there be sound!

Need to browse the web:  urpmi mozilla

Oooh...I took some pictures:  urpmi gphoto2

...and so on.  Start with a very minimal system, and as you need an
application you install it very easily."





bye.
/Sebast


:
####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]############################

Sub : User CDROM mount                               LOST #010

This is a security issue ....  NOT recommended unless it is on
a stand alone box.  Make the following changes to  /etc/fstab,
(where the mount point is /cdrom).  Then, $mount /cdrom ... as 
an user will do the trick          

/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,nosuid,nodev,noauto,user 0 0

####<bish at nde.vsnl.net.in>#####################################
:



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vic Gedris [mailto:vic at gedris.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:52 AM
> To: OCLUG
> Subject: Re: [oclug]brownie points to mandrake
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Shad Young wrote:
> 
> > There is still some garbage software installed, stuff I 
> will never use
> > and do not need, but again I was trying not to break any 
> dependencies.
> > Things like 10 mb of fax SW simply because KDE-Utils 
> depends on them and
> > such. The main problem is it is very time consuming to 
> install a system
> > this way.
> 
> Hi Shad,
> 
> Thanks for that post.  I've only ever done one "minimal" type of
> install, and that was with my Debian install at home.
> 
> With the help of Mike Soulier, we got my desktop system running with a
> pretty minimalistic Debian Stable setup.  I didn't bother checking the
> size...I should have...  After the install, we "upgraded" to Debian
> Unstable.  Mike showed me a few Debian tips and tricks, then 
> let me fend
> for myself.
> 
> Here's where it got really interesting, and I fell in love 
> with Debian!
> :-)  With a relatively minimal system, many of the applications I was
> used to using just weren't there.
> apt-get install xmms
> ....boom......xmms and its dependencies magically appear on my system.
> Let there be sound!
> 
> Need to browse the web:  apt-get install mozilla
> 
> Oooh...I took some pictures:  apt-get install gphoto2
> 
> ...and so on.  Start with a very minimal system, and as you need an
> application you install it very easily.
> 
> From now on, I will always try to do minimal installs.  With good
> packaging and dependency checking, these types of things should be
> painless.
> 
> Cheers,
> Vic
> 
> -- 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> Vic Gedris           vic-at-gedris.org           
http://vic.dyndns.org/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
oclug mailing list
oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug