Perfect Setup Suse9.3

I folowed the tutorial and get to the installing apt part and i get ERRORS.

Code:

auto:~ # apt-get install findutils ncftp readline libgcc glibc-devel findutils-locate gcc flex lynx compat-readline4 db-devel
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
findutils is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package ncftp

If i continue to the next part i get:

E: Couldn't find package quota
auto:~ # 

My sources.list file has both the gwdg.de and the mathematik mirror uncommented,but after i run apt-get update all i get is package not found errors??

What am i missing?

 

What's in /etc/apt/sources.list?

Instead of using apt, you can also try to install these packages with yast.

 

thanks for the quick reply.

my sources.list contains this

Code:

# A very basic sources.list file.
# Remove "base" in case you are behind a slow connection.
# Fastest repository comes first, with netselect it is possible to determine
# the fastest repository easily.
# Visit the server to determine which apt components are provided.
rpm ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.3-i386 update security rpmkeys
rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.3-i386 update security rpmkeys

# The list with all available components can be found at:
# http://linix01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm
# Some components provide experimental software, select wisely!
# http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.3-i386/examples/sources.list.FTP
    
# Consult the link above if you want to include uri's for src rpms

 

It should contain this line:

Code:

rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.3-i386 [COLOR="Red"]base[/COLOR] update security

(as described on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_suse_9.3_p4 ).

Don't forget to run

Code:

apt-get update

after you've changed /etc/apt/sources.list.

 

Thanks
my problem was the file wasnt saving properly.


I ran into this problem with proftp when trying to start it

Code:

auto:/tmp # /etc/init.d/proftpd start
/etc/init.d/proftpd: line 1: {rtf1ansiansicpg1252deff0deflang1033{fonttbl{f0fromanfcharset0: command not found
/etc/init.d/proftpd: line 1: }{f1fswissfcharset0: command not found
: command not found: line 1: }}
/etc/init.d/proftpd: line 2: {*generator: command not found
/etc/init.d/proftpd: line 2: }viewkind4uc1pardsb100sa100f0fs24: command not found
: command not found: line 3: pardf1fs20par
: command not found: line 4: }

I compiled it ok and copied the proftp text to a file called proftp and saved it in init.d but when i issue the start command i get all these errors?
Do i need to save the proftp file with a certain extension.
thanks for all the help

 

You mean proftpd, I guess?

Did you save the file with Unix linebreaks? When you created the file on a Windows system, it is likely to have Windows linebreaks.