Tools/MandrivaOnline
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Mandriva Online provides a wide range of services for updating easily a Mandriva Linux System
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- Errata for Mandriva Online
Applications
- mdkonline wizard to create account, authenticate and send config to a Mandriva server
- mdkapplet, dockable in the taskbar; to display updates alerts
- mdkupdate, a cron daemon which automatically check and update scheduled packages
Wizard (mdkonline)
This application connects you to Mandriva Online Services. It enables you to register your systems, create generic mandriva account and alter the settings by which Mandriva Online interact with your systems. After registration, your systems can use the applet or the daemon to retrieve the latest updates from Mandriva.
You must be root ro run the Mandriva Online wizard. You will be prompted to enter root password before proceeding, if started as standard user. The wizard can be started using one of the following methods:
- on the KDE, GNOME, IceWM desktop, go to Configuration -> Other -> Discover custom services
- at the shell prompt type mdkonline
If you have followed and finished all the steps in the first boot wizard in 2006.0 and above distribution, your mandriva account and host registration are already set. Launch a browser and login into your account at https://www.mandrivaonline.com and check your settings.
If your network connection requires you to use a proxy server to make HTTP connections, launch drakproxy and enter your proxy settings before using mdkonline.
Applet (mdkapplet)
The mdkapplet Notification tool is a notifier that appears on the panel and alerts users when software package updates are available for their systems. It is automatically docked into the taskbar of the running graphical environment (KDE, Gnome, IceWM...).
To get debug information about mdkapplet, right click on the applet and choose 'quit' remove the applet from the taskbar, launch a terminal and as standard user, type mdkapplet --debug, you can either look at the console output or from the log window and find useful debug information.
Daemon (mdkupdate)
The mdkudpdate cron utility is launched every day to check out and perform scheduled actions :
- syncing the rpm database with the one on the server
- installing packages when they are scheduled by the user on the Mandriva Online web interface
you can manually force the installation of scheduled package by issuing mdkupdate --auto from the command line
