path: root/man/C/urpmi.8

.TH urpmi 8 "28 Aug 2003" "MandrakeSoft" "Mandrake Linux"
.IX urpmi
.SH NAME
urpmi \- rpm wrapper making installs easier for the user
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B urpmi [\fIoptions\fP] [\fIpackage_names\fP | \fIrpm_files...\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
urpmi authorizes well-known rpms (or rpm files) to be installed including
all their dependencies.
You can use it to install the dependencies of a source package, or a source
package itself.

You can compare rpm vs. urpmi with insmod vs. modprobe or dpkg vs apt-get.
.PP
Just launch urpmi followed by what you think is the name of the package(s),
and urpmi will:
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\- Propose different package names if the name was ambiguous, and quit.
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\- If only one corresponding package is found, check whether its dependencies
are already installed.
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\- If not, propose to install the dependencies, and on a positive answer,
proceed.
.PP
Note that urpmi handles installations from various types of media (ftp, http,
rsync, local and nfs volumes, removable media such as CDROMs) and is able to
install dependencies from a medium different from the original package's
medium. If necessary, for removable media, urpmi may ask you to insert the
appropriate disk.
.PP
To add a new medium containing rpms, run urpmi.addmedia.
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To remove a medium, use urpmi.removemedia.
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To update the package list (for example when the ftp archive changes) use
urpmi.update.
.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB\--help\fP"
Print an help message and exit (this is the same as \fB-h\fP or \fB-?\fP).
.IP "\fB\--update\fP"
Use only update media. This means that \fBurpmi\fP will search packages and
resolve dependencies only in media marked as containing updates.
.IP "\fB\--media\fP \fImedium1,...,mediumN\fP"
Select specific media to be used, instead of all available media (or update
media if \fB--update\fP is used).
.IP "\fB\--excludemedia\fP \fImedium1,...,mediumN\fP"
Do not use the specified media.
.IP "\fB\--sortmedia\fP \fImedium1,...,mediumN\fP"
Sort the specified media. Substrings may be used to simplify grouping.
.IP "\fB\--synthesis\fP \fIfile\fP"
Use the specified synthesis file instead of the urpmi database for
searching packages and resolving dependencies.
.IP "\fB\--auto\fP"
Install all required dependencies without asking.
.IP "\fB\--auto-select\fP"
Automatically select all packages that have to be upgraded, according to already
installed packages and packages listed in various registered media.
.IP "\fB\--no-uninstall\fP"
Never ask to uninstall a package but prefer aborting instead. This can be
safer in auto mode.
.IP "\fB\--keep\fP"
When some dependencies cannot be satisfied, change the selection of packages
to trying to keep existing packages instead of removing them. This behaviour
generally rejects the upgrade of packages given on command line (or when using
--auto-select) when a dependency error occurs.
.IP "\fB\--split-level \fInumber\fP"
Split urpmi's operation in small transactions when the total number of
packages to upgrade is greater than the given \fInumber\fP. This option is
activated by default, and the default value of \fInumber\fP is 20.
.IP "\fB\--split-length \fIcount\fP"
Split urpmi's operation in small transactions of at least \fIcount\fP
packages. The default is 1 and setting this value to 0 just disables splitting
in small transactions.
.IP "\fB\--fuzzy\fP"
Disable fast search on exact package name; i.e. it will propose all
packages containing the name, even if one has exactly the given name (this
is the same as \fB\-y\fP).
.IP "\fB\--src\fP \fIname\fP"
Search a source package matching \fIname\fP and select all its dependencies by
default, unless \fB\--install-src\fP is used in order to install the source
package itself.
.IP "\fB\--install-src\fP"
Install only the source package (no binary packages will be installed).
.IP "\fB\--clean\fP"
Remove all packages from the cache in directory /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.
.IP "\fB\--noclean\fP"
Do not remove any packages from the cache in directory /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.
.IP "\fB\--force\fP"
Assume yes on all questions.
.IP "\fB\--allow-nodeps\fP"
With this option, urpmi will ask the user on error whether it should continue
the installation without checking dependencies. By default, urpmi exits
immediately in this case.
.IP "\fB\--allow-force\fP"
With this option, urpmi will ask the user on error whether it should proceed
to a forced installation. By default, urpmi exits immediately in this case.
.IP "\fB\--parallel\fP \fIalias\fP"
Activate distributed execution of urpmi to other machines (it is mandatory that
urpmi is installed, but it is not necessary to have media defined on any
machines). \fIalias\fP defines which extension module is to be used by urpmi
(currently, \fBurpmi-parallel-ka-run\fP or \fBurpmi-parallel-ssh\fP are
available) and which machines should be updated. This alias is defined in the
file /etc/urpmi/parallel.cfg as described below.
.IP "\fB\--root\fP \fIdirectory\fP"
Use the file system tree rooted for rpm install. All operations and scripts
will run after chroot(2). The rpm database that lies in the rooted tree will
be used, but the urpmi configuration comes from the normal system.
.IP "\fB\--wget\fP"
Use wget for downloading distant files. By default curl is used if
available, or wget instead.
.IP "\fB\--curl\fP"
Use curl for downloading distant files. By default curl is used if
available, or wget instead.
.IP "\fB\--limit-rate \fIrate\fP"
Try to limit the download speed, \fIrate\fP is given in bytes/sec. This option is
not active by default.
.IP "\fB\--proxy\fP \fIproxyhost[:port|1080]\fP"
Use specified HTTP proxy.
.IP "\fB\--proxy-user\fP \fIuser:password\fP"
Use specified user and password to use for proxy authentication.
.IP "\fB\--bug\fP \fIdirectory\fP"
Create a bug report in \fIdirectory\fP, you have to send a compressed archive of
the directory to the \fBurpmi\fP maintainer for the bug being (probably) fixed.
.IP "\fB\--env\fP \fIdirectory\fP"
Use a different environment directly from a bug report to replay a bug, the
argument is the same argument given to \fB--bug\fP option.
.IP "\fB\--X\fP"
Use X interface.
.IP "\fB\--best-output\fP"
Try to use X interface, or, if not available, the standard text interface (using
rpm-like output).
.IP "\fB\--verify-rpm\fP" or "\fB\--no-verify-rpm\fP"
Activate or deactivate rpm signature checking. It's activated by default.
.IP "\fB\--test\fP"
Test (same as \fBrpm --test\fP) installation of packages but do not modify the
system.
.IP "\fB\--excludepath\fP \fIstring\fP"
Do not install files whose name begins with the given \fIstring\fP (same as \fBrpm
--excludepath\fP).
.IP "\fB\--excludedocs\fP"
Do not install documents files (same as \fBrpm --excludedocs\fP).
.IP "\fB\-a\fP"
If multiple packages match the given substring, install them all.
.IP "\fB\-p\fP"
Allow search in provides to find package (default).
.IP "\fB\-P\fP"
Do not search in provides to find package (this is the opposite of \fB-p\fP).
.IP "\fB\-y\fP"
Yhis is the same as \fB--fuzzy\fP.
.IP "\fB\-s\fP"
This is the same as \fB--src\fP.
.IP "\fB\-q\fP"
Quiet mode: when calling rpm no upgrade status is printed.
.IP "\fB\-v\fP"
Proposes a verbose mode with various messages.
.SH FILES
.de FN
\fI\|\\$1\|\fP
..
.TP
.FN /usr/sbin/urpmi
The \fBurpmi\fP executable (perl script)
.TP
.FN /var/lib/urpmi/list.*
Contains the list of all packages known by urpmi and their location. This file
is only used when a password is used to access a distant location (using a
network protocol) or when various directories are used to store the packages.
.TP
.FN /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.*
Contains information about all known packages; it's a summary of rpm headers.
If an hdlist file is used for a medium, \fBurpmf\fP can operate completely
without accessing this medium (this is almost always the case).
.TP
.FN /var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.*
Contains synthesis information about all known packages built from hdlist files
that can be used by minimal closure algorithm. If these files are not present
hdlist files will be used instead but this is much slower.
.TP
.FN /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
Contains media description, previous format from older urpmi is still accepted.
.TP
.FN /etc/urpmi/parallel.cfg
Contains parallel alias description, format is
\fB<alias>:<interface[(media)]>:<interface_parameter>\fP where \fB<alias>\fP is
a symbolic name, \fB<interface>\fP can be \fBka-run\fP or \fBssh\fP,
\fB<media>\fP is a media list (as \fB--media\fP parameter),
\fB<interface_parameter>\fP is a specific interface parameter list like "-c ssh
-m node1 -m node2" for \fBka-run\fP extension or "node1:node2" for \fBssh\fP
extension.
.TP
.FN /etc/urpmi/skip.list
Contains package expressions that should not be automatically updated. The
format is a list of provide of package (or regular expression if bounded by
slashes \fB/\fP) with optional operator and version string, or regular
expression to match the fullname of packages too.
.TP
.FN /etc/urpmi/inst.list
Contains package names that should be installed instead of updated.
.SH EXIT CODES
.IP 1
Command line inconsistency.
.IP 2
Problem registering local packages.
.IP 3
Source packages not retrievable.
.IP 4
Medium is not selected.
.IP 5
Medium already exists.
.IP 6
Unable to save configuration.
.IP 7
Urpmi database locked.
.IP 8
Unable to create bug report.
.IP 9
Unable to open rpmdb.
.IP 10
Some files are missing for installation.
.IP 11
Some transactions failed but not all.
.IP 12
All transactions failed.
.IP 13
Some files are missing and some transactions failed but not all.
.IP 14
Some files are missing and all transactions failed.
.SH "BUG REPORTS"
If you find a bug in \fBurpmi\fP please report it using
.I urpmi --bug bug_name_as_directory ...
command with the command line used, it will automatically create a directory
called \fIbug_name_as_directory\fP containing necessary files to reproduce it if
possible.
.PP
Please test the report using
.I urpmi --env bug_name_as_directory ...
to check bug is still here, currently only resolution bugs are reproduceable.
.PP
For sending the report, use
.I tar cvfz bug_name_as_directory.tgz bug_name_as_directory
and send me (fpons@mandrakesoft.com) it directly with a description of what is
wrong according to you.
.SH BUGS
When a package is removed, it may not be replaced with an older version.
.SH AUTHOR
Pascal Rigaux, Mandrakesoft <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> (original author)
.PP
Francois Pons, Mandrakesoft <fpons@mandrakesoft.com> (current author)
.SH CONTRIBUTORS
Please mail to authors if you are not belonging to this alphabetically sorted
list after having contributed.
.PP
Andrej Borsenkow,
Guillaume Cottenceau,
Philippe Libat,
Bryan Paxton,
Guillaume Rousse,
Michael Scherer,
Alexander Skwar,
Olivier Thauvin,
Erwan Velu,
Florent Villard.
.SH SEE ALSO
\fIurpmi.addmedia\fP(8),
\fIurpmi.update\fP(8),
\fIurpmi.removemedia\fP(8),
\fIurpmf\fP(8),
\fIurpmq\fP(8),
\fIurpmi.cfg\fP(5)