For the adventureous people using APT in combination with synaptic: there is a new release of synaptic! It looks better than ever. The gtk interface is now the default interface and the wings interface is just supported, but not developed anymore. For this reason I build the gtk version rpm only. There is now support for easy editing of the sources.list file. The new version is available at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/apt-0.5.4/ -- Have fun :) Richard
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 07:37, Richard Bos wrote:
For the adventureous people using APT in combination with synaptic: there is a new release of synaptic! It looks better than ever. The gtk interface is now the default interface and the wings interface is just supported, but not developed anymore. For this reason I build the gtk version rpm only.
There is now support for easy editing of the sources.list file.
The new version is available at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/apt-0.5.4/
-- Have fun :)
Richard
A definite improvement. However, SuSE 8.0 users should note that the default sources.list is for 7.3, so they will need to restore or edit their sources.list before running update. The install process renames the original /etc/apt/sources.list as /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmsave. I also downloaded and installed the latest apt version apt-0.5.4cnc7-2cl.i386.rpm because the new version of synaptic complained about dependencies with the old version of apt-0.5.4 Dave
Op donderdag 26 september 2002 23:37, schreef Richard Bos:
For the adventureous people using APT in combination with synaptic: there is a new release of synaptic! It looks better than ever. The gtk interface is now the default interface and the wings interface is just supported, but not developed anymore. For this reason I build the gtk version rpm only.
There is now support for easy editing of the sources.list file.
The new version is available at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/apt-0.5.4/
Hi Richard, Whenever i started Synaptic i got an error box saying: "Could not open file /etc/apt/preferences - open (2 No such file or directory)", so I "touched" this file and now it's working, but i'm not sure what the contents should be. At the moment it is empty. Also: the install made a new sources.list and apt.conf renaming the old ones to *.rpmsave. As far as i can see the format of these files haven't changed, so why replace them? Something else: is it just me or is ftp.gwdg.de getting slower all the time? Cheers, Marcel
On Friday 27 September 2002 1:22 am, Marcel Broekman wrote:
Hi Richard,
Whenever i started Synaptic i got an error box saying: "Could not open file /etc/apt/preferences - open (2 No such file or directory)", so I "touched" this file and now it's working, but i'm not sure what the contents should be. At the moment it is empty.
Marcel, How did you "touch" the file? I'm having the same probllembut with the blank preferences file I get an error message saying there is no header. What do I need to do? Richard
Op zaterdag 28 september 2002 05:10, schreef Richard:
On Friday 27 September 2002 1:22 am, Marcel Broekman wrote:
Hi Richard,
Whenever i started Synaptic i got an error box saying: "Could not open file /etc/apt/preferences - open (2 No such file or directory)", so I "touched" this file and now it's working, but i'm not sure what the contents should be. At the moment it is empty.
Marcel, How did you "touch" the file? I'm having the same probllembut with the blank preferences file I get an error message saying there is no header. What do I need to do? Richard
touch /etc/apt/preferences (you need to be root though) -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:54 am, Richard Bos wrote:
Marcel, How did you "touch" the file? I'm having the same probllembut with the blank preferences file I get an error message saying there is no header. What do I need to do? Richard
touch /etc/apt/preferences (you need to be root though)
Thanks again folks. I would feel real stupid, but this is the first time I have run across the command touch.. My man page says it updates the access and modifiacation times of each FILE. My question is what does that have to do with getting the file to work? Inquiring minds, you know. By the way the sudden shutdown is no longer a problem since the new version came out. Thanks again. Richard
* Richard (ratcheson@earthlink.net) [020928 00:41]: ::On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:54 am, Richard Bos wrote: ::> > Marcel, ::> > How did you "touch" the file? I'm having the same probllembut with the ::> > blank preferences file I get an error message saying there is no header. ::> > What do I need to do? ::> > Richard ::> ::> touch /etc/apt/preferences (you need to be root though) ::> ::Thanks again folks. I would feel real stupid, but this is the first time I ::have run across the command touch.. My man page says it updates the access ::and modifiacation times of each FILE. My question is what does that have to ::do with getting the file to work? Inquiring minds, you know. :: ::By the way the sudden shutdown is no longer a problem since the new version ::came out. Well, cryptic man pages are famous in Unix/Linux :) What your doing by touching a file that doesn't exist is making a zero length file by the same name that you typed. It has other functions but I'm to tired to explain them. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
On Saturday 28 September 2002 2:43 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Well, cryptic man pages are famous in Unix/Linux :)
What your doing by touching a file that doesn't exist is making a zero length file by the same name that you typed. It has other functions but I'm to tired to explain them. :)
Thanks Ben, That will keep me quiet for awhile. RA
On 28 Sep 2002 at 2:37, Richard wrote:
On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:54 am, Richard Bos wrote:
Marcel, How did you "touch" the file? I'm having the same probllembut with the blank preferences file I get an error message saying there is no header. What do I need to do? Richard
touch /etc/apt/preferences (you need to be root though)
Thanks again folks. I would feel real stupid, but this is the first time I have run across the command touch.. My man page says it updates the access and modifiacation times of each FILE. My question is what does that have to do with getting the file to work? Inquiring minds, you know.
By the way the sudden shutdown is no longer a problem since the new version came out.
Thanks again. Richard
Touch changes the date/time of the last change of the file to match the current date/time. This means that make will spot that the file is newer than the existing executable and re-compile all the files that use the touch-ed file. Programmers frequently use the touch command on all their source files to force a complete re-compile of the project. Hope this helps :) alan -- http://www.ibgames.net/alan Registered Linux user #6822 http://counter.li.org Winding Down - Weekly Tech Newsletter - subscribe at http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/mailing.html
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