[luau] apt-get
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
Tue Jul 30 16:41:01 PDT 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vikram Khurana" <vkhurana at mail.nmfs.hawaii.edu>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:23 PM
Subject: [luau] apt-get
>
> Can you please explain how to get apt-get to work with RPM.(also where
> do I get apt-get from?) I searched google & found http://www.a-a-p.org,
> but their stuff is in the pre-alpha phase
http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/
APT-RPM for Red Hat repository
APT-RPM is unsupported when used with Red Hat, but I heard it works well.
APT-RPM is used natively for the Conectiva Linux distribution from Brazil.
>
> I'm a LINUX newbie pretending to be an intermediate user. I've been
> trying to get unixODBC working on my RH 7.3 and am running into
> dependency hell. Maybe apt-get is the solution....
Two things...
1) Where did you get that unixODBC package? Is it an official Red Hat
package or add-on? Please provide URL's so I can check it out.
2) Red Hat itself has an apt-get like tool that handles automatic dependency
resolution called up2date. You must register to RHN in order to use it.
Anyone can create a RHN account and have free update access for one
computer. After you are registered you can install packages like in this
example.
[root at computer root]# rpm -qi nmap-frontend
package nmap-frontend is not installed
[root at computer root]# up2date nmap-frontend
Retrieving list of all available packages...
########################################
Removing installed packages from list of updates...
########################################
Removing packages with files not specified from list...
Removing packages marked to skip from list...
########################################
Getting headers for available packages...
########################################
Removing packages with files marked to skip from list...
########################################
Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:
Name Version Release
--------------------------------------------------------------
nmap 2.54BETA31 1
Retrieving selected packages...
nmap-frontend-2.54BETA31-1. ########################## Done.
nmap-2.54BETA31-1.i386.rpm: ########################## Done.
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
1:nmap ########################################### [
50%]
2:nmap-frontend ###########################################
[100%]
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