Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Anders Dahlqvist <dahlqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

fredagen den 14 juni 2002 11.24 skrev du:

:: Hi Anders,
::
:: I am also interested in this possibility. Is there a "HOW-TO" for getting
:: apt4rpm to work with SuSE? There seems to be a fair amount of people on
:: the list that either have had problem getting it to work or have
:: experienced problems after it was working.
::
:: Cheers,
::
:: Brian

There is a howto at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm 
The problems people have with apt boil down to three things:
1. apt refuses to do anything on a system with broken dependencies. Therefore 
start out with issuing the commands "apt-get update"  and  "apt-get 
dist-upgrade". This will basically make your system apt-ready.If you get 
errors the error messages are informative enough so you can fix them 
manually.
2. ximian. Since ximian's version-numbering is incompatible with SuSE's apt 
will most certainly sooner or later create a broken system. It is therefore 
highly recomended that you remove any reference to ximian in your 
/etc/apt/sources.list. 
3. Non-SuSE rpms. Version numbering, dependencies, provides etc. Solution: 
build your own RPMS from source with checkinstall. You can tweak version 
numbering from within checkinstall so that your builds will not be 
overwritten by apt-get. If this isn't an option there's another workaround:
You wan't to install the totally apt-unfriendly package foo.rpm which you have 
placed in /tmp
cd /
cpio2rpm /tmp/foo.rpm | cpio -iduv
This will install the files but not touch the rpm database.
Best regards


Anders

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