Saturday, August 1, 2009

2009.1

So Mandriva 2009 Spring Edition (2009.1) has been out for a few months, but I'm too lazy to update it. To be honest, I was quite satisfied with 2009, until recently when Yahoo changed their protocol and my old version Pidgin couldn't connect to their server anymore. A lame reason I know but that was the thing that helped me defeat my laziness and download the new image.

This time, instead of burning the image to dvd, I have decided to mount it locally and use it as an update media. Here's the command to add it to urpmi database:
$ urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom /mnt/2009.1/i586/
adding medium ""Mandriva Linux - 2009 Spring (Free) - main" (cdrom1)" before remote medium "Mandriva Linux - 2009.0 (Free) - Installer"
adding medium ""Mandriva Linux - 2009 Spring (Free) - contrib" (cdrom2)" beforeremote medium "Mandriva Linux - 2009.0 (Free) - Installer"
Then the pidgin update:
$ urpmi pidgin
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
Package Version Release Arch
(medium ""Mandriva Linux - 2009 Spring (Free) - main" (cdrom1)")
libpurple0 2.5.5 5mdv2009.1 i586
pidgin 2.5.5 5mdv2009.1 i586
pidgin-i18n 2.5.5 5mdv2009.1 i586
pidgin-plugins 2.5.5 5mdv2009.1 i586
1.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
4.9MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of the 4 packages? (Y/n) y

installing pidgin-i18n-2.5.5-5mdv2009.1.i586.rpm pidgin-plugins-2.5.5-5mdv2009.1.i586.rpm libpurple0-2.5.5-5mdv2009.1.i586.rpm pidgin-2.5.5-5mdv2009.1.i586.rpmfrom /mnt/2009.1/i586/media/main
Preparing... #############################################
1/4: libpurple0 #############################################
2/4: pidgin-plugins #############################################
3/4: pidgin-i18n #############################################
4/4: pidgin #############################################
Unfortunately, the problem with pidgin was only fixed in version 2.5.7. So in the end I had to grab the latest version 2.5.8 off the Internet to get it done.

Maybe tomorrow I'll try updating the kernel next.