Loads of RPMS!!!

[hijinks]

Want to have access to almost all apps you can think of that are rpms and can easily be installed via apt-get? I know i do. This is like redhat's version of portage in a way. Its community supported in a way.

 

Just edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following line in for whatever distro you use

 

Code:

Fedora core 2
rpm http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/2/en/i386 at-testing

Fedora core 1
rpm http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/1/en/i386 at-testing

RH 9
rpm http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/9/en/i386 at-testing

 

then run

 

Code:

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

 

that will prompt you to upgrade some of the packages probably. Just type Y to continue

 

Once you are fully upgraded run

 

Code:

apt-get update

 

once more. You'll now notice you have a bunch more apt sources to find stuff in

 

 

if you run into this error on the apt-get update

 

 

Code:

rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
error: cannot open Packages database in
E: could not open RPM database

 

don't worry.. just run the following commands to fix your rpm DB. Sometimes doing mass upgrades will cause RPM to confuse itself or error out. Repairing it fixes it 99% of the time

 

Code:

rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
rpm -vv --rebuilddb
apt-get update

 

another one from the J to the Y

[enigma]

Great tutorial thanks for the information I had 0 errors while installing it...

[tek-69]

everything went great just like you said but i got the folllowing issues:

 

Code:

Fetched 165MB in 9m31s (289kB/s)
Executing RPM (-e)...
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
  1:atrpms                 ########################################### [  1%]
  2:sgml-common            warning: /etc/sgml/catalog saved as /etc/sgml/catalog.rpmorig
########################################### [  2%]
  3:opensp                 ########################################### [  3%]
  4:docbook-dtds           ########################################### [  3%]
Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog
Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog
Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog
Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog
Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog
Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog
Failed to remove entry from /etc/sgml/catalog
  5:docbook-style-dsssl    ########################################### [  4%]
  6:openjade               ########################################### [  5%]
  7:libxml2-python         ########################################### [  6%]
  8:libxml2-devel          ########################################### [  7%]
  9:libxml2                ########################################### [  8%]
 10:xml-common             warning: /etc/xml/catalog saved as /etc/xml/catalog.rpmsave
########################################### [  8%]
warning: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xmlcatalog saved as /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xmlcatalog.rpmsave
 11:jadetex                ########################################### [  9%]
 12:tetex                  ########################################### [ 10%]

 

what did i do wrong and how can i fix it ?

-tek-

[tek-69]

it would seem i spoke to soon, upon further inspection , my box no longer thinks apt-get update is a command. oh my.

[hijinks]

are you using rh 9?

[square]

Worked fine for me, had a small problem with a dep.. which Jy fixed for me..

 

 

Code:

[root@xaser root]# rpm -Uvh http://download.atrpms.net/other/packages/fedora-1-i386/atrpms/atrpms-kickstart-20-1.rhfc1.at.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://download.atrpms.net/other/packages/fedora-1-i386/atrpms/atrpms-kickstart-20-1.rhfc1.at.i386.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.kTFF8D: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 66534c2b
error: Failed dependencies:
       apt = 0.5.15cnc3-0.1.fr is needed by (installed) apt-devel-0.5.15cnc3-0.1.fr

 

 

i did this:

 

Code:

rpm -e apt-devel

 

then ran it again, worked great :)

 

 

square@EFnet

[tek-69]

yeah im using rh 9.

[hijinks]

THose warnings are ok. They are just letting you know file changes. If you can still use the apt-get command everything should be working

[tek-69]

when i try and use the apt-get command now, all i get is the following:

Code:

-bash-2.05b# apt-get
-bash: /usr/bin/apt-get: No such file or directory

 

any ideas?

[hijinks]

install these rpms

 

[/url]http://download.atrpms.net/production/pack...rh9.at.i386.rpm

http://download.atrpms.net/production/pack...rh9.at.i386.rpm

[url=http://download.atrpms.net/production/pack...rh9.at.i386.rpm]http://download.atrpms.net/production/pack...rh9.at.i386.rpm