From: karl.dalen21@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:59:46 AM UTC-8, Jim Beard wrote:   
   > :   
   >   
   > Look at /var/log/rpmpkgs.  You will probably have four versions   
   > due to updates/saved old versions, and you will likely have to   
   > gunzip all but the most recent if you want to look at them.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Thanks, I'll look there. I use "rpm -qa " a lot to see what I have   
   installed. In this case I don't have the md 2010 up and running anymore   
   since the old motherboard broke down with a transistor on the board   
   burnt. Didn't have time to fix and it is old so I bought a new board.   
   All I have is the hard drives (old PATA drives) containing the root   
   partitions so I can only look in files. The names don't need to match   
   exactly since I'm going to go through the package installation manually   
   (after doing a full automated system upgrade as suggested by Bit Twister   
   earlier).   
   Haven't tried it yet but I have an PATA-to-USB adapter that hopefully will   
   get my old root partition readable in Mageia. All data, of course I have   
   backed up to other media but not the /var partition.   
      
   I rarely do system upgrades (judging from the fact that I was still   
   running md 2010 until now) so it's OK do go through the package   
   installation manually. Some highly customizable software such as mplayer   
   I prefer to build myself from source rather than install from distribution   
   but all standard utilities I install from urpmi. I think I had installed   
   several 100 packages in my MD 2010 environment.   
      
   Regards,   
      
   /Karl   
      
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