Mandriva - new distro update with mdkonline

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Shlomo,

On Friday 30 July 2010 09:42:11 Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> Let me first say that I usually do a clean install rather than an update,
> so I'm a bit hesitant about this. So here's my question.
> 
> mdkonline which usually notifies me of RPM package updates, notified me
> that a new version (2010.1) is available. When I choose to upgrade, I'm
> given 2 options - Free and PowerPack. Since my original installation of
> 2010.0 (and previous versions) was with Mandriva One, I'm worried that
> choosing Free, will cause problems with proprietary software such as Flash
> and NVidia drivers.
> 
> What should I do?

You can find the packages for Flash and the Nvidia drivers on the non-free 
repository and/or in PLF - http://plf.zarb.org/ . Assuming something will 
break, you can always install it using urpmi this way. So you can safely 
install Mandriva Free.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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