installing apt, the command doesn't seem to work

trempel · 07-31-2005, 04:35 PM

I was reading the LQ.org wiki on installing apt and synaptic for fedora.
It says:

"Download apt for Fedora. You might ifnd it by choosing your Fedora Core version from this page: [[3] (http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/)]. Otherwise try freshrpms (http://apt.freshrpms.net/)
After downloading, browse to the RPM file and execute:
1. rpm -Uvh apt-get* "

I have changed my working directory to the directory in which the rpm file resides, and then I entered the command (without the number, thats a step number). the terminal returns:
error: File not found by glob: apt-get*

The command is suposed to install apt, as far as I can tell. As a noob, i'm not sure what's going wrong with the command. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

cdhgee · 07-31-2005, 04:57 PM

Try putting the individual rpm filename(s) on the command line after rpm -Uvh, thus:

Code:

rpm -Uvh apt-get-1.2.3.4.rpm

trempel · 07-31-2005, 07:37 PM

OH, My most sincere apologies, I probably should have realized that was why there was an asterisk.
stupid me

trempel · 07-31-2005, 09:26 PM

I just tried it:

Code:

[travis@localhost temp]$ rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm
warning: apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
error: can't create transaction lock
[travis@localhost temp]$

Any more ideas?

trempel · 07-31-2005, 09:33 PM

sometimes my inadequacy startles even me. When I was reading about how to install this stuff it said to first check and see if it's already there by looking on the applications menu. Of course it wasn't there.

but I just remembered a command I used a while ago

Code:

[travis@localhost temp]$ rpm -qa | grep apt
synaptics-0.13.5-5

So, Now that I know it's installed, I still don't know how to actually run it. Sorry for the stupoid questions. You can ignore that last post.

thegoalie · 08-01-2005, 04:45 AM

sounds to me that the rpm databse is still open for viewing thats the error that you get when it cant access the database

cdhgee · 08-01-2005, 05:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by trempel
I just tried it:

Code:

[travis@localhost temp]$ rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm warning: apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b error: can't create transaction lock [travis@localhost temp]$

Any more ideas?

This is usually because you're not root. Try running the command as root.

cdhgee · 08-01-2005, 05:05 AM

Oh and if it is actually installed then you can run it by going

Code:

synaptic &