Re: Apt, dpkg and dselect on non-debian system (RH)
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Alfredo Kengi Kojima wrote:
>
>
> I'm not sure whether this is what you want, but I've ported
> apt for RPM based systems. It has only been tested on
> Conectiva, but it should work in RedHat too.
>
> It's available at:
>
> ftp://ftp.conectiva.com/pub/conectiva/EXPERIMENTAL/apt/
>
> The version available above will probably not work
> with deb packages, but I'll start porting it
> to apt's alien code cvs branch soon. That should ensure
> that there's only one apt out there, which supports both
> deb and rpm based systems.
Hmm that's not exacly what i wanted. I have working apt on RH. I wanted
dselect, but aptitude could be good too. Where can i find libapt source (i
searched on ftp but could't find) ?
Thx.
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I installed apt (apt-get update && apt-get -d install works ok) on
> > Red Hat system (when needed, ~ is expanded)
> >
> > make startup
> > make
> > mkdir ~/local/apt
> > mv build/bin ~/local/apt
> > mkdir ~/local/apt/cache
> > mkdir -p ~/local/apt/archives/partial
> > mkdir -p ~/local/apt/lists/partial
> > mkdir ~/local/apt/etc
> > touch ~/local/apt/cache/srcpkgcache.bin
> > touch ~/local/apt/cache/pkgcache.bin
> >
> > File ~/local/apt/etc/apt.conf:
> > APT
> > {
> > Architecture "i386";
> > Get::Download-Only "true";
> > };
> > Dir
> > {
> > State "~/local/apt/";
> > State::status "status";
> > Cache
> > {
> > archives "~/local/apt/archives/";
> > srcpkgcache "~/local/apt/cache/srcpkgcache.bin";
> > pkgcache "~/local/apt/cache/pkgcache.bin";
> > }
> > Etc "~/local/apt/etc/";
> > bin::Methods "~/local/apt/bin/methods" ;
> > };
> >
> > These shell variables are set:
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/local/apt/bin
> > APT_CONFIG="~/local/apt/etc/apt.conf"
> >
> >
> >
> > Now installing dpkg:
> > ./configure --prefix=~/local/dpkg --with-dselect
> > make
> > make install
> > mkdir ~/local/apt/updates
> > touch ~/local/apt/available
> >
> > Executing:
> > ~/local/dpkg/bin/dselect --admindir ~/local/apt # ~/local/apt there
> > # are status etc
> > When entering options:
> > [A,U]: dselect: unable to read `/usr/local/lib/dpkg/methods/' directory
> > for reading methods: Permission denied # how to change this ?
> > [S] - it's working, but there is less files then there should be.
> >
> >
> > And how to add apt method of downloading deb's ?
> >
> >
> >
> > PS.
> > I don't want to install any debs on RH, i want only to download them
> > using apt, and then do sth. with them. I know about apt-zip,apt-move.
> > I can't remove redhat and install debian.
> > I want to install dselect on that Redhat.
> >
> >
> > TIA
> >
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> > Piotrek
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> >
> >
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