Download the ones you need manualy and then install them with: rpm --upgrade packagename.rpm I usually get them from here: ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS/ There is also a local UofM mirror too but it seems to rather well used! :-) ftp://ftp.software.umn.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/ Most of the mirrors have the updates. Christopher Gahlon Ben Stallings wrote: > > Last night I tried to use Mandrake 8.1's software update feature to download > and install a security update to the kernel. I found the program to be very > unsatisfactory: it didn't tell me the names of the files it was downloading > or give any indication of how long the download would take. Then the files > didn't wind up downloading all the way but the program tried to install them > anyway, so I wound up with half old kernel modules and half new kernel > modules and the machine wouldn't boot. When I got it up and running with the > emergency floppy disk, there was no PPP support so I couldn't try the > download again! And of course the installer's update mode doesn't fix the > kernel, so I had to reinstall. :-< > > What alternatives are there to this Software Update program for Mandrake > users? I know I can find rpms on rpmfind.net, but only if I know what > they're called, and I like the idea of the software letting me know when > updates are available... but if I can't trust it, I won't use it. > Suggestions? --Ben > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list