urpmi is a package management tool for installing, removing, updating and querying software packages of local or remote (networked) media. It wraps around the RPM Package Manager in the role of a smart package manager. It uses repositories and will resolve dependencies so that the user will not suffer from

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that can happen when using RPM directly. It works with official sources from Mandriva or unofficial sources such as those from the Penguin Liberation Front. It has a graphical front-end:

Rpmdrake rpmdrake is a graphical interface to urpmi, which permits the installation of software packages. It is provided as part of Mandriva Linux, Mageia and ROSA for package installation. The application is written in gtk2-perl, and allows: * upda ...

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C/perl bindings
* a higher leve
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implementing the advanced algorithms In addition to the now-defunct Mandriva Linux, it is also being used by: * Uruk GNU/Linux, a 100% free software system origin in

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, based on this package manager virtually for Uruk package manager simulator, and

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kernels and

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real package manager from

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, also named after a city in Iraq * Mageia, a French fork of Mandriva Linux that for a time was the base for future Mandriva products but is now an independent community driven Linux distribution. *

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, a Russian fork of Mandriva Linux that is the base for future OpenMandriva products.

History

urpmi was developed as an experiment by Pascal Rigaux (Pixel) to address RPM install limitations; it was further maintained by François Pons and different Mandriva employees. It is currently (2010-2021) maintained by Thierry Vignaud who was the maintainer of rpmdrake and one of the co-maintainers of the drakx installer and tools at Mandriva before he continued doing that job at Mageia. Per Øyvind Karlsen maintained a fork of urpmi at

Rosa Linux ROSA Linux is a Linux operating system distribution, developed by the Russian company 'LLC NTC IT ROSA'. It is available in three different editions: ROSA Desktop Fresh, ROSA Enterprise Desktop, and ROSA Enterprise Linux Server, with the latter ...

, backporting fixes and improvements from Thierry Vignaud work,https://abf.rosalinux.ru/proyvind/urpmi/commit/11e4718ce2a1bf814bcb1a68d2490e2ff3a8ca34.patch but this is not the version that was used by Mandriva Business Server (which was based on Mageia). This fork died around 2013 (date of last commit).

Commands

Generic commands

Useful commands

References

External links