How To Keep Your System In Good Order

[djohnston]

Yes I deleted XP from my home server (no more f.....g windows auto internet messages) and installed PCLOS instead and spent the last week consuming large quantities of red wine in frustration.....still a nice glowing frustration 

It gets easier as you go, knowing that you are immune to the type of viruses infesting Windows installations around the globe. I gave up the XP habit completely at home a couple or three years ago. I still have to deal with it at work, and it's almost like a battle, sometimes, me vs. the OS. The same computers always run any brand of Linux much more smoothly.

[deprydation]

I have a question about after doing the complete install and everything.

Right now I'm deployed and unable to do the automatic updates, but also bought the Respository disks. The question is, when I go to apply updates in Synaptic, will it prompt me asking for a certain disk, or do I just have to trial and error all the different disks and find out what each one contains?

Any advice you have concerning not having an active internet connection for install would be greatly appreciated.

[jaydot]

welcome home deprydation.

you will find you get more attention if you start your own thread with that question.

[johncoom]

because they are all mirrors of the ibiblio repository and don't get updated at the same times.  the mirrors are in different parts of the world and some are administered by volunteers who have to fit in maintenance with their jobs.

with more than one repo enabled, your packages list can become scrambled with incorrect entries, leading to mis-installation.

Maybe Synaptic should then dis-allow the user to select more than one??

I don't know ever thing, but here is one explanation as to why Synaptic can use an other repository mirror as well.

Most of us are from Native English speaking countries, USA/CAN/UK/AU/etc. and for us we should only use one repo mirror at a time.

BUT there are some users from other countries who use PCLinux (even MiniMe) and often in these countries mirrors their PCLinuxOS communities have created additional packages that are often related to non-English packages or things like that. The Thailand community does just that and these packages are only of use to Thai speakers, it is not quite the same pclinuxos repo path for these additional packages so they have to enable two repository mirror paths for it to work.

So unless your worlds/country community does some thing special like this, it is recommended to only use one repo mirror at a time.

[x2611]

'Why must i always fully update?'
The strict adherence to the principles of stability has gained for PCLinuxOS a reputation for quality and usability that the developers and users are proud of, knowing that the os is reliable for an indefinite period.

Great tips thanks. Since using PCLOS, I have instinctively adhered to this upgrade rule. However at one point the upgraded Wine 0.9.58-1 broke my Canon DPP program and I had to revert to 0.9.56-2.

I've been checking all newer versions of Wine up until 1.0.x, but they still haven't fixed it.

This brings me to my question. How long can I stick with my old Wine before it starts breaking other upgraded things, or the other way around?

[phohammer]

I've had PCLinuxOS for a little over a week now (replaced another distro 9.04 beta) and I'm loving it!! I'm glad someone posted this showing new users how to update! I'm in the process now.

This is a thousand times more efficient than WinUpdates, and you don't have to wait until "second Tues. of the month" to get them. Have fun!

Yes, much better than Windows' "mandatory" updates that hog your resources and connection when you have better things to do than update MS Office, which you use about once every 6 months (I didn't look too hard, but in Vista, it seems as though updates are an unstoppable force once they've started and hijack your system upon shutdown and boot, as well).
With PCLinuxOS' update style, you can update when your not using your pc. Great idea!

[George Underwood Edwards]

After I installed the last update I tried to upgrade and I found that some functions registered as Failed when I next ran the system. I had to do a full
reinstall 24 hours after I installed the new OS!

Now I only update the files that I really must update (flash, real player, etc.), and then I run the
system as is. I know this goes against what is said here, but it works for me.

[omnio]

PCLinuxOS is a 'meta' distro, or 'rolling release', that is, it is built in such a way that the user installs and then fully updates periodically over an indefinite period, so far as much as four years, rather than fully reinstalling from the next release as with most distros.

I'm not sure "most distros" is a proper term here, Debian and Gentoo (which are pretty big distros) have developed ways of upgrading and never-ever reinstall. And they really work. And probably there are some other distros around that can do it too.

[jaydot]

picky, picky.  it was so when i wrote it.  would you like me to change it to 'many'?

[omnio]

Yeah, I love pclos but I gotta be fair to those distros, it's where I'm coming from. Actually, those 2 that I mentioned have been doing the upgrade thingy for ages.

[everge48]

May I also suggest one retains a list of all installed packages for future reference particularly in the case of multiple SW packages being installed.
This would make such a list in a text file.
rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n > SW_List.txt

Very useful, thanks!

[wells23]

This is a great posting, thanks for the info.
A lot of guys where I work at can use the info in here.  Most of them are IT security and only use linux

 

[exterran]

I have a question about after doing the complete install and everything.

Right now I'm deployed and unable to do the automatic updates, but also bought the Respository disks. The question is, when I go to apply updates in Synaptic, will it prompt me asking for a certain disk, or do I just have to trial and error all the different disks and find out what each one contains?

Any advice you have concerning not having an active internet connection for install would be greatly appreciated.

You will need to create a local repository to use your repository disc-set. As previously suggested, begin a "new topic" for that discussion. I will be able to provide full information as to how to create a local repository. I am restricted to dial-up access, so keeping current with new updates day-to-day is not convenient for me. More details about all that if, or when, I see your post concerning this.

[danny95133]

Thanks for sharing . This is my first post . Also this is my first time using PC Linuxos . Hope it gonna work well

[longtom]

Thanks for sharing . This is my first post . Also this is my first time using PC Linuxos . Hope it gonna work well

welcome danny95133 - you gonna have loads of fun.

Why don't you go to the "Welcome Center" and give us a chance to say "Hello" proper?