re-installing synaptic
 

Hi All,

I'm a linux newbie but had managed to get synaptic running after installing it with atrpm-kickstart. All was well until I tried to upgrade to latest version of synaptic, there seemed to be a conflict between versions. I uninstalled synaptic but now when I try to reinstall with atrpm-kickstart all goes well until I try to apt-get install synaptic

then I get a conflict error with atrpm_13-16 (which was supposed to be uninstalled!)

Are there any FAQ's for apt, synaptic (or yum?) I've had a good 'trawl' but can't find much advice.

All assistance gratefully received!

Tom
:confused:

where did you get this atrpm-kickstart? i have searched around and cant find it. sorry that i cant help you, i am a total newbie. i still have not been able to get synaptic running at all.

m

nevermind, i got it going w/out the kickstart. sorry about ur problem i haen't found any info for you. i am still looking for a good FAQ or manual myself.

m

google apt4rpm and look at the debian docs, the commands are, for the most part the same.

Hi All,
Thanks for the replies,
Tried again and managed to re-install apt with atrpms-kickstart, everything appeared to go OK until I tried
apt-get install synaptic

Received this error message:

[root@localhost aviceda]# apt-get install synaptic
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
atrpms
The following NEW packages will be installed:
atrpms synaptic
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 110 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/797kB of archives.
After unpacking 2269kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/atrpms_13-16.rh9.at_noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID *********
error: Failed dependencies:
apt >= 0.5.4 is needed by synaptic-0.43.1-7.rh9.at
E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (2)


Does anyone have any ideas?

Tom :Pengy:

hmmm. Well the error is pretty straight forward. you need apt (greater than or equal to ) 0.5.4.

try this:
$apt-get update
$apt-get upgrade
and see if will upgrade your version of apt.
and where did you get your apt rpm?