RE: [SLE] apt or inapt

The manual (http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/) says: Store the contents of 1 of the following urls (depending on your system) in the file: /etc/apt/sources.list; Now try this: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/7.3-i386/examples/sources.list.FT... That seems very readable to me... -- Richard P.S. if you have any improved text for the manual sent it me.

===== Original Message From Neville Cobb ===== You wont be able to save in /etc/apt if you are browsing as a user, parking or editing the sources.list file in etc/ept requies root permissions. I normally dowmload to my home directory and then run the file manager as root and transfer the contents of the file to the contents of the /etc/apt/sources.list.

I also run synaptic which seems to be the font end to apt-get, I find the gui much easier as I am also not a linux guru.

Nev

gilson redrick wrote:

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Hello, all:

I need help. A week ago, having read so much *about* apt-get, I foolishly thought of giving it a try. No only I read it, I downloaded and *printed on paper* the /apt4rpm manual. Having been a member of Mensa is of no value to understand a poorly written manual, so it took me a lot of effort and tears to get the apt and libapt files down and verified with the 'rpm -qa ...' Next, I'll skip over what it took to get 'apt-0.5.4 ...' The instructions say, "Store the contents of [component list for SuSE-7.3] in the file: /etc/apt/sources.list." Very simple and direct English, but skimpy, at best. The "contents" are a file named AptContents.SUSE-7.3 -i386.gz. That "gz" at the end is short for "jeez!" as in, "Jeez! The instructions say to "store the contents*, nothing about '.gz'" As I log onto the ftp site, the browser asks *where* I want to store the file. I choose /etc/atp. The download begins, the browser telling me the downloading is going to /etc/apt/source.list. Fine. Some 16 minutes later, the download finished, I go check /etc/atp. There's no file there, by any name. A Find doesn't find it. I did that with Mozilla, so now I do it again with Konqueror. The download goes without a hitch, but in the end there's no file in /etc/apt *by any name.* After a long time, I find in */tmp* the files arkdhnYZb.gz and Kdukt00b.gz, both 5,185,875 B. Why the browser says the download goes to one file and it *actually* goes to another is totally beyond my little brain. I move *one* file to /etc/apt/sources.list and go to the next step, 'apt-get -s upgrade'. Whether I leave the file as '.gz' or do a gzip -d, the result is the same: "Error: °¡OT is not known in on line 1 ..." I delete the file and move from /tmp the other download. The symbols are different, but the error message is the same. Now, what?

TIA for any help!

P.S.: And some people still wonder why the masses don't flock in droves from M$ to Linux!

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