On Friday 06 September 2002 17:16, Munir Nassar wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Ben Stallings wrote: > > I've heard that there's a better utility for updating RPMs under Red Hat, > > that automatically downloads all necessary files... is something like > > that available for Mandrake as well? Thanks in advance. --Ben > > > iirc mandrake comes with a similar utility called urpmi though i have > never used it I use urpmi all the time. It comes close to apt-get in it's functionality. Take a look at man pages for: urpmi - install/update software urpmi.addmedia - add new source download locations urpmi.removemedia - remove source download locations If you want to do something similar to apt-get update that would be urpmi --auto-select Hope that helps! Nick -- Nick Davis Associate Systems Administrator ndavis at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services