mandriva rpm repositories

[jbmcmillan]

I am trying to find a rpm for firefox among others through the media manager what do I have to add and how to add them so I can get them from there instead of manually searching for them?

[AlexK]

follow the steps at easy urpmi. You can download programs in the command line by using:

urpmi <program name>

Note, you need to be root to run urpmi and if a particular program isn't found, it will display a list of matches.

urpmi will also automaticially install the program for you.

If you want a graphical method, you will have to add a mirror to the installation sources found in the MCC. I think theres a list of mirrors to use on the mandrake site.

[TheGreen]

What AlexK said.

See my post here for more help with configuring media and urpmi : http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/top...tml&highlight=

[xgm]

Go to terminal
$ su
# urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/x.x/RPMS with hdlist.cz
(where x.x is the number of your distro)
#urpmi update
#urpmi firefox (or whatever program you want to install)

and there you go!