[SOLVED] Repositories for Mageia 4

[Thebunyip]

Hi All,

My first post as I have just moved over from a Debian distribution and installed Magiea 4 x86_64bit from the DVD. Boy do I have a lot to learn. Not a smooth experience as the Installer did not like my WiFi card (TP_Link TL-WN851ND - Qualcomm Atheros AR227) although there had bee no problems with the Magiea 4 x86_64 Live CD WiFi connection.

On first booting my completed Magiea 4 install the WiFi was soon up and running without any problem. In consequence I appear to have lost out on the automatic set up of the required repositories during the install,

My attempt to update the repositories and add the six "Common User" choices (Core, Non Free and Tainted) from the offered list suggested here https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Install_media_in_Mageia_2_for_beginner#Default_media_enabled_automatically_and_optional_media_-_Mageia_.2864_bit.29 has hit a snag.

I cannot see the matching repositiories 1,3,11,13,21 and 23 exactly as described on my list. Instead of a choice from 30 repositories I have a choice from 90 odd possibilities. My choices go all the way up to distrib 96. Based on the age of the (Magiea 2) wiki page I wonder if the list of thirty repositories was current for Magiea 2 but not the current release. I have tried to search for information on the repositories for Mageia 4 but cannot find anything. Probably revealing my lack of search skills.

So a couple of questions arise.

Q1. Should I delete my list of 90 odd repositories and start again?
Q2. Is there a different list of "Common User" repositories for Magiea 4 X86_64 or am I barking up the wrong tree altogether.

[jkerr82508]

It looks as though you have two complete sets of repositories. If you wish, you could remove the existing repositories:

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su
urpmi.removemedia -a

and then add a new set

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su
urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://mirrors.mageia.org/api/mageia.4.x86_64.list'

See

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man urpmi.addmedia

for details

or using the GUI:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_a ... ne_sources

IIRC on a 64 bit system it should set up about 45 repositories, most of which are disabled by default.

Jim

[Thebunyip]

Hi jkerr82508,

Thank you for your help. That has sorted out my confusion nicely.

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks