Hi, Your howto site looks promising. I've followd instructions so far, but, having installed apt, I am experiencing difficulties with the installation of certain packages, notably ncftp, quota, and now mysql. A transcript of my shell session is attached. Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Arthur linux:/home/aallen # rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ap...os/apt-libs-0.5.15cnc7-0.suse093.rb0.i586.rpm Retrieving ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ap...os/apt-libs-0.5.15cnc7-0.suse093.rb0.i586.rpm warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.uQJMYZ: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 8c9b4b0d Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:apt-libs ########################################### [100%] linux:/home/aallen # rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ap...er-rbos/apt-0.5.15cnc7-0.suse093.rb0.i586.rpm Retrieving ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ap...er-rbos/apt-0.5.15cnc7-0.suse093.rb0.i586.rpm warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.PpG53E: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 8c9b4b0d Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:apt ########################################### [100%] linux:/home/aallen # vi /etc/apt/sources.list linux:/home/aallen # apt-get update Get:1 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386 release [11.5kB] Get:2 ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/9.3-i386 release [11.5kB] Fetched 23.0kB in 3s (7485B/s) Get:1 ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/9.3-i386/update pkglist [741kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386/update pkglist [743kB] Get:3 ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/9.3-i386/update release [131B] Get:4 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386/update release [131B] Get:5 ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/9.3-i386/security pkglist [530kB] Get:6 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386/security pkglist [535kB] Get:7 ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/9.3-i386/security release [133B] Get:8 ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/9.3-i386/rpmkeys pkglist [5801B] Get:9 ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/9.3-i386/rpmkeys release [132B] Get:10 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386/security release [133B] Get:11 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386/rpmkeys pkglist [5801B] Get:12 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386/rpmkeys release [132B] Fetched 2562kB in 44s (57.7kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done linux:/home/aallen # apt-get install findutils ncftp readline libgcc glibc-devel Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done findutils is already the newest version. E: Couldn't find package ncftp linux:/home/aallen # findutils-locate gcc flex lynx compat-readline4 db-devel bash: findutils-locate: command not found linux:/home/aallen # 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 linux:/home/aallen # /etc/init.d/SuSEfirewall2_setup stop Shutting down the Firewall SuSEfirewall2: Warning: ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled. done linux:/home/aallen # chkconfig --del SuSEfirewall2_setup SuSEfirewall2_setup 0ff 1ff 2ff 3ff 4ff 5ff 6ff linux:/home/aallen # chkconfig --del SuSEfirewall2_init SuSEfirewall2_init 0ff 1ff 2ff 3ff 4ff 5ff 6ff linux:/home/aallen # apt-get install quota Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package quota linux:/home/aallen # apt-get install bind bind-chrootenv bind-devel bind-utils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done bind is already the newest version. bind-chrootenv is already the newest version. bind-utils is already the newest version. The following NEW packages will be installed: bind-devel 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 1297kB of archives. After unpacking 4756kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de SuSE/9.3-i386/update bind-devel 9.3.1-3.2 [1297kB] Fetched 1297kB in 13s (95.7kB/s) Checking GPG signatures... Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:bind-devel ########################################### [100%] Done. apt executing: /sbin/SuSEconfig Starting SuSEconfig, the SuSE Configuration Tool... Running in full featured mode. Reading /etc/sysconfig and updating the system... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.desktop-file-utils... File '/opt/kde3/share/applications/kde/knights.desktop' contains invalid MIME type 'application/x-chess-pgn,Application' that contains invalid characters Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts... Creating cache files for Xft ...................... Creating fonts.{scale,dir} files .......... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.groff... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.gtk2... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.guile... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.isdn... Modify isdn.conf Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.ispell... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.kde... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.kdm3... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.libxml2... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.news... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.pango... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.perl... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.permissions... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.postfix... Setting up postfix local as MDA... Setting SPAM protection to "off"... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.profiles... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.scpm... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.sortpasswd... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.susehelp... DOCALLOW: localhost Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.syslog-ng... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.words... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.xdm... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.zmessages... Finished. apt executing: /sbin/ldconfig linux:/home/aallen # chkconfig --add named named 0ff 1ff 2ff 3n 4ff 5n 6ff linux:/home/aallen # /etc/init.d/named start Starting name server BIND Warning: File, /etc/named.conf.include not found. Creating it. done linux:/home/aallen # apt-get install mysql mysql-client mysql-shared mysql-devel perl-DBD-mysql perl-DBI perl-Data-ShowTable Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package mysql-client has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package mysql-client has no installation candidate linux:/home/aallen # chkconfig --add mysql mysql: unknown service mysql: not a runlevel service linux:/home/aallen # apt-get install mysq mysql-shared mysql-devel perl-DBD-mysql perl-DBI perl-Data-ShowTable Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package mysq linux:/home/aallen # apt-get install mysql mysql-shared mysql-devel perl-DBD-mysql perl-DBI perl-Data-ShowTable Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package mysql-shared has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package mysql-shared has no installation candidate
I'm ruuning on a pentium 4, (T30 laptop) which I believe to be a 32 bit system. The file you ask for is 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was able to make good progress regardless, using Yast and apt together. It took a bit of doing, but so far I seem to be ok. Thanks a bunch for a useful howto. It is nice to know that the expertize is there when needed.
Your /etc/apt/sources.list is wrong. It should contain only Code: rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.3-i386 [B][COLOR="Red"]base[/COLOR][/B] update security as described on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_suse_9.3_p4. Please change that and run Code: apt-get update afterwards.
