Urpmi

The correct title of this article is urpmi. The initial letter is capitalized due to technical restrictions.

urpmi is a Mandriva Linux package management command line tool for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media. It wraps around the package manager rpm with the aim that the user should not have to suffer the often-encountered dependency hell.

Usage

urpmi <package_name>   # Install package
urpme <package_name>   # Uninstall package with link (dependencies)
urpmq <package_name>   # Query the package database
urpmf <file>           # Find package that contains a file
urpmi.update -a        # Update your package list
urpmi --auto-select    # Update your system

Useful commands

urpmi -y <word>        # Find package containing <word> in their name
urpmi_rpm-find-leaves  # Find package without link (dependencies)

Adding sources

• Type the following as root (I am using a mirror in France):

urpmi.addmedia main ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2007.0/i586/media/main/release with media_info/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia main_updates ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2007.0/i586/media/main/updates with media_info/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia main_backports ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2007.0/i586/media/main/backports with media_info/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia contrib rsync://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2007.0/i586/media/contrib/release with media_info/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia contrib_updates ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2007.0/i586/media/contrib/updates with media_info/hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia contrib_backports ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2007.0/i586/media/contrib/backports with media_info/hdlist.cz

Note: You might need to enter urpmi.removemedia -a first, in order to reinitialize urpmi's setup.

See also

• rpm

External links

• Official urpmi site
• Mirror selection (easy urpmi)
• URPMI resources page (Mandriva wiki)