On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:25 -0900, ejbjr wrote:
Is it even possible to download a Mandrake RPM?
You should never have to.
man urpmi
Every time I try to download an audio package from a
Mandrake repository
it complains that I don't have the necessary dependency packages
installed on my internet machine, and asks me to insert one of more of
the Mandrake 9.2 discs into my cdrom drive.
urpmi again
Is there any way to download these packages so I can
burn them to a CD
and bring them home to my audio machine?
Sure. Just download and burn them. But don't expect packages build for
Mandrake 10 to run properly on 9.2 or whatever.
Or maybe repackage them from
the installed copy?
no.
My audio machine at home is not on the internet, and
never will be due
to the presence of unreleased audio tracks - no network connection is
the most reliable firewall ever created.
You could copy all the rpms you need to a CD or DVD, then run
gendistrib, then urpmi.addmedia, and you could use it to install RPMs on
any machine.
Austin