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[urpmi | http://www.urpmi.org/] is [Mandriva]'s PackageManagementTool. It's a dependency-resolving front-end to [RPM].

You need to configure urpmi on your machine to point to the package repositories you want to use.  An easy way to do this is with [easyurpmi | http://urpmi-addmedia.org/]. Make sure when configuring sources, you match the exact version of [Mandriva] that you are using.

There are different types of sources.

<tt>main</tt>:
    The main distribution's packages
<tt>updates</tt>:
    Updates to packages in <tt>main</tt>
<tt>contrib</tt>:
    Other packages contributed to this version
<tt>plf-free</tt>:
    Packages from the [Penguin Liberation Front| http://plf.zarb.org/], which are generally absent from <tt>main</tt> for legal reasons
<tt>plf-nonfree</tt>:
    Non-[Free] packages from PLF
<tt>jpackage</tt>:
    [Java] packages for [Linux]

See also:
* [URPMI tutorial | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/walter/geek/rpm-howto.html]
* [URPMI resources | http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/UrpmiResources]

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Last edited on Saturday, August 27, 2005 2:46:08 pm by PeterHewett

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