Mandriva - new distro update with mdkonline

[Shlomo Solomon]

Thanks,

BTW - after writing, I thought of a different approach. I updated a virtual 
2010.0 machine under VirtualBox. The installer crashed half way through, but 
after re-booting, I was able to update all packages without any problems. The 
machine works, so I'll run the update on my main machine.

On Friday 30 July 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 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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