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apt for RPM - Calum, you want this!
voidmain:
Yeah, "apt" is really the way to go, no matter what the underlying package format is (wether it be *.deb , *.rpm, *.pkg, etc). It would be nice if there were some sort of magical way to be able to handle all of those package types together, but that might be asking a little much. In the mean time there must be repositories of packages in the type needed for the specific distribution and version. apt for RPM is nearly identical in it's workings to the Debian apt, with the exception that the underlying packages are in RPM format rather than DEB format.
apt for RPM also has the dist-upgrade and I used it on my RH61 system when hooked up to the RH62 repository without any problem. But when I hooked up to the RH73 repository I was afraid that something might go wrong so I cancelled the upgrade. This is my gateway/firewall/proxy box so I didn't really want to get it into a state that it might be down for a while. Everything else went perfectly, didn't even have to touch the machine or reboot (but this is normal in Linux).
creedon:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
Yeah, "apt" is really the way to go, no matter what the underlying package format is (wether it be *.deb , *.rpm, *.pkg, etc). It would be nice if there were some sort of magical way to be able to handle all of those package types together, but that might be asking a little much. In the mean time there must be repositories of packages in the type needed for the specific distribution and version. apt for RPM is nearly identical in it's workings to the Debian apt, with the exception that the underlying packages are in RPM format rather than DEB format.
apt for RPM also has the dist-upgrade and I used it on my RH61 system when hooked up to the RH62 repository without any problem. But when I hooked up to the RH73 repository I was afraid that something might go wrong so I cancelled the upgrade. This is my gateway/firewall/proxy box so I didn't really want to get it into a state that it might be down for a while. Everything else went perfectly, didn't even have to touch the machine or reboot (but this is normal in Linux).
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Actually, I've seen an app that will create an .RPM from a .DEB file. I think that I saw it on Freshmeat, but I believe that it was pretty buggy; I'm not that brave, and since Debian has more packages than I'll ever need, I really don't need it. I really do wish that a default package manager would be agreed upon by the various distributions, though.
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by Tux:
Calcum, that a classic
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have you been eating the wrong mushrooms lately??
That was posted by DOSman
dishawjp:
Hi All,
I had some things to do this evening and just got back to playing with the computer. The upgrade to rpm 4.0.2 went perfectly. Not something that I'm used to lately :)
I'm going to download the "apt get" binary now, but for giggles, I tried installing xbill again, with the upgraded rpm, and got the following error message:
libXaw3d.so.7 is needed by xbill-2.1-1
No huge deal. I'm hoping to have better hardware within another week or two and will be upgrading to RH 8 as soon as I can.
I've learned a lot playing with 6.2 but am hoping that things (especially installs) will be a lot smoother with the newest version of RH.
Thanks again to all!
Jim
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by DOSman:
I'm going to download the "apt get" binary now, but for giggles, I tried installing xbill again, with the upgraded rpm, and got the following error message:
libXaw3d.so.7 is needed by xbill-2.1-1
No huge deal. I'm hoping to have better hardware within another week or two and will be upgrading to RH 8 as soon as I can.
I've learned a lot playing with 6.2 but am hoping that things (especially installs) will be a lot smoother with the newest version of RH.
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apt will automatically resolve that dependency, although what it is telling you is that xbill depends on that library which isn't installed. You should find an RPM on one of your RedHat CDs under /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS called Xaw3d-1.3-21.i386.rpm or you can download it here.
Actually, that is not the version of xbill that came with RedHat 6.2. You also should have xbill on your CDs that will install and work, or you can download it here.
Of course you can also just click on it in "synapt" to install it, if you get the "synapt" GUI installed that is.
I think you will like RedHat 8.0.
[ November 03, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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