[SOLVED] urpmi.update: unable to access medium ... ???

[jtwdyp]

I'm still very new to Mageia... I must say that so far I'm rather pleased with it. I'm not sure if it has any bearing on my question or not, but Just as I was preparing to install Mageia3 my DVD burner kicked the bucket. {right in the middle of burning the Mageia iso in fact} After a bit of dithering about, I discovered something called unetbootin, with which I put the iso on a flashdrive and had a successful install.

I'm liking it! But every now and then I think I see a reference to a problem accessing one or more repos. This is the screen output of me using a root shell attempting to make sure all repos are up to date...

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 /usr/sbin
UnderTree=-> urpmi.update -a
unable to access medium "Core Release".
unable to access medium "Nonfree Release".
medium "Core Release2" is up-to-date
medium "Core Updates" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree Release2" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree Updates" is up-to-date
medium "Tainted Release" is up-to-date
medium "Tainted Updates" is up-to-date
medium "Core 32bit Release" is up-to-date
medium "Core 32bit Updates" is up-to-date
 /usr/sbin
UnderTree=->


I note that there are two repos that urpmi.update can't seem to access.

Is this normal? If not, how can I fix it?

Thanks!

[Ken-Bergen]

The sources you're unable to access are on your installation media.
Unless you're on dialup or have low download limits you can just disable them.

[jtwdyp]

The sources you're unable to access are on your installation media.

Then given that I don't keep the installation media in the machine, It is normal to get this error...

Unless you're on dialup or have low download limits you can just disable them.

Nah, been using broadband for so long that I've completely forgotten how to set up a dialup connection...

So I'm thinking that if:

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urpmi.removemedia "Core Release" "Nonfree Release"

doesn't work, then I'll try:

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urpmi.removemedia "Core Release" && urpmi.removemedia "Nonfree Release"

At least one of them aughta do it...

Thanks!

[jtwdyp]

Alternatively just use the Mageia Control Centre, Software Management and "Configure Media Sources for install and update".

Yeah, I probably could have done it that way... But I much prefer CLI solutions. That is when I can find clear instructions for them...

urpmi, is something I can easily paste into a reminder note about how {and why} I did something last time. Then Next time { if I can find my notes on what I did last time} I can just paste it back to the command line.