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Subject:    [SLE] Ultra-short apt how-to  AS: Re: [SLE] kde3.1 apt-getable?
From:       JW <jw () centraltexasit ! com>
Date:       2003-01-31 9:13:35
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On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:10, René Matthäi wrote:
> Like me - can you give me a _very_ short howto for apt under 8.1?

Download the following:

http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/apt-0.5.4/RPMS.tested/apt-0.5.4cnc9-1cl.i386.rpm
http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/apt-0.5.4/RPMS.tested/apt-devel-0.5.4cnc9-1cl.i386.rpm
http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/apt-0.5.4/RPMS.tested/synaptic-0.26-rb1.i386.rpm


Run the following commands as root:

rpm -Uhv apt-devel-0.5.4cnc9* synaptic*

cd /etc/apt

mv sources.list sources.list.original

emacs (or any text editor) sources.list

Put the following inside:

#
# Repository created by: aptate (version 059cvs021214)
# At: Fre Jan 17 01:43:10 MET 2003
# More info about aptate at: http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net
#
rpm      ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/8.1-i386   base update-prpm update kde \
gnome2 sax2 mozilla ximian extra usr-local-bin suser-suserpm suser-tcousin funktronics \
packman-i386 packman-i586 packman-i686 packman-noarch mantel-kernel wine suse-people \
security-prpm security kde3-stable rpm-src  ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/8.1-i386  \
base update-prpm update kde gnome2 sax2 mozilla ximian extra usr-local-bin suser-suserpm \
suser-tcousin funktronics packman-i386 packman-i586 packman-i686 packman-noarch mantel-kernel \
wine suse-people security-prpm security kde3-stable #
rpm     http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm apt-0.5.4 tested
rpm-src http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm apt-0.5.4 tested
#
rpm http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/apt suse/8.x macromedia
#
rpm      ftp://ftp.funktronics.ca/pub/rpm/apt SuSE/8.1-i586   funktronics
rpm-src  ftp://ftp.funktronics.ca/pub/rpm/apt SuSE/8.1-i586   funktronics
#end of sources.list

(beware of line-breaks in the above if you're using a mail reader that forces line wrapping)

apt-get update

apt-get install name-of-package-you-want-to-install

*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*
*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*

DO NOT RUN apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade untill you have read and understood the full \
documentation.

Thiis short how-to if for people who want to use apt to install or update individual packages.

If you want to see what will happen when you apt-get install a apacke without _actualy_ doing \
it, run apt-get -s install packagename

to search for a package, run apt-cache search packagename

For example I wanted to know what netscape packages I could install so I did the following:

apt-cache search netscape
and got back a list of avaible packages to install, for example, netscape-plugins

Occasionally someoen's repositry will be haywire and you'll get back feed back from apt. 
When this happens you can remove the repository (at least temporarily) from \
/etc/apt/sources.list  and run apt-get update again.

For more info, read the web page. It really won't take you that long to read the home page of \
the web site, there's no need to use the man pages or anything like that.

-- 

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Jonathan Wilson
Cedar Creek Software     http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com



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