On Wednesday 05 February 2003 18:11, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 15:44, Richard Bos wrote:
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When I first saw mention of apt4rpm in the apt-get pages, I followed the link, which seemed to imply that I needed to install that app only if I was creating my own repositories. So, I ignored it. I'm using existing repositories, and the apt components that I already have installed seem able to find the remote databases, make decisions about the contents, download the indicated packages, and perform installation or upgrades. Do I, in fact, still need apt4rpm, after all?
AFAIK: No. apt4rpm is needed for creating (and sharing) repositories. [...]
Synaptic returned: "Error: sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (5)" [...] Synaptic came back with "Error: sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (31)"
Uuhhm... You did run synaptic as root, did you? :-} Cheers, Leen