There are many issues I have with RH 9, but I will solve them one at a time. First one up is RH 9's RPM manager. When you pull up the menu to Add/Remove Applications and it opens up a window displaying only what was installed by default with no option to install any foreign software. Also Red Hat's way of installing RPMs is to double click the RPM from a Nautilus window and it will "automatically" install the RPM (except I haven't gotten it to work yet). I'm used to the RPM manager in RH 7.3, gnoRPM. Is there anything comperable that I can use in RH 9? Or would it be better overall to use the RPM command from a terminal?

apt4rpm.sourceforge.net

Then use:

apt-get update

apt-get install <software of your choice>

If you like GUI's then use:

apt-get install synaptic

This will sort out virtually all RPM dependancies and install the software for you.

Flibble

Having trouble getting the source code compiled from this program. After doing the standard "./configure && make" su to root then "make install", the "apt-get" function does not exist.

There are only a handful of apps that I couldn't get to compile due to dependency issues. Even then, all rpm did was tell me what to get and I installed those from source.

apt-get is great.

Chekc this out http://apt.freshrpms.net/

Compiling from source has almost always worked for me.

That's what I'm talking about, I'm having trouble compiling apt-get. Would giving the output of me compiling it help?

apt-get is only available to root. Have you tried doing 'su' in the console first?

Ok, I have recompiled it as root from start to finish. I un-tarr'ed the file into my home dir. Su'ed into root. And after the standard "./configure && make && make install". the command "apt-get" does not exist...as root.

apt-get was installed by default to /usr/bin on my RedHat 8.0 box. I had to add it to PATH.

If everything compiled correctly and make instal didn't end with an error it's probably hidden somewhere. Try whereis apt-get, locate apt-get, or which apt-get

Good Luck

If compiling isn't working go to this link and just download the RPMs, APT and Synaptic from the following link:
Fresh RPMs

Once you have them downloaded go to console and the directory where you downloaded it to ,

Type su, then root password, then rpm -Uhv apt*, and then rpm -Uhv synaptic*

Then when you go back to your gui under System Settings you should have Synaptic click on it and it will ask for roots password and then it will take an inventory of every RPM on your system, from here you can install and remove RPMs using a gui.

Good Luck

I got this error message:

[root@localhost bigun]# rpm -Uvh apt*
warning: apt-0.5.5cnc5-fr2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
apt4rpm-0.64.4: not an rpm package (or package manifest): Is a directory

Wait....nevermind, if there is anything else that fits the wildcard that isn't a RPM it won't work...

Sweet...very sweet. Can it install local RPM's?

Well...I said sweet. It said "preparing packages for installation" then sat there doing nothing for about 10 minutes.

Hmmm....this is interesting....I tried installing the RPM's I tried installing with synaptic with the RPM command. After I hit return it sits there...

Here's the command line I entered:

[root@localhost XMame&GXMame]# rpm -Uvh xmame-0.69.1-fr1.i386.rpm xmame-SDL-0.69.1-fr1.i386.rpm
alsa-lib-0.9.3-fr2.i386.rpm

There's no output....It may be the "&" causing trouble. Lemme try that....if I don't respond then it had no effect.

no effect...also I'm installing these RPM off of a fat32 partition...any clues? I'm stumped!