[Gllug] apt-rpm for Red Hat 7.2

[Bruce Richardson]

On 1/24/02, 2:26:49 PM, David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> 
wrote regarding Re: [Gllug] apt-rpm for Red Hat 7.2:


> On Thursday, 24 Jan 2002, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> >On 1/24/02, 2:04:18 PM, Vincent AE Scott <gllug at codex.net> wrote regarding
> >>hmmm, i was playing arroung with my bare bones 2.2r3 install yesterday,
> >>and i couldnt install any packages.  apt-get install ... kept telling 
me
> >>that there was a pre-req that needed to be installed first.  attempting
> >>to install the pre-req kept failing.  apt-get -f install did not help 
at
> >>all.  now i'm at a loss.  at least with rpm i can force it to do my
> >>bidding.
> >Then you've done something basic wrong each and every time.

> It would be interesting to know _what_ the pre-req was.

Umph, yes.  The initial part of the debian set-up installs all the 
binaries necessary to run apt (it has too, as apt is used to install 
everything else) so it would have to be something missing from the 
installation image, most likely.

-- 

Bruce

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