[luau] apt-get

[Warren Togami]

----- 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%]