urpmi.addmedia Command Examples

Add media in Mageia. Note: Mageia documentation uses medium and repository as synonymous. See also: urpmi, urpmi.update, urpme, urpmi.removemedia, urpmf, urpmq. More information: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/URPMI#urpme.

• Add a medium:

sudo urpmi.addmedia {{medium}} {{ftp://ftp.site.com/path/to/Mageia/RPMS}}

• Add a medium from a hard drive (run genhdlist2 in the directory first):

sudo urpmi.addmedia --distrib HD file:/{{/path/to/repo}}

• Add important media from a chosen mirror:

sudo urpmi.addmedia --distrib ftp://{{mirror_website}}/mirror/mageia/distrib/{{version}}/{{arch}}

• Automatically select mirrors from a mirror list:

sudo urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist {{mirrorlist}}