How to use apt? I'm use to gentoo's portage

dataangel · 05-30-2005, 07:52 PM

On gentoo, I was able to do this:

Code:

xxxx@citadel: ~$ emerge whatever_software_I_want

And Gentoo would find it for me, resolve dependencies, download whatever was needed, and install it, without me lifting a finger. I thought the purpose of apt was to do the same thing for other distros, so I set it up on SuSe. But it seems totally incapable of resolving dependencies.

First I tried installing synaptic with "apt-get install synaptic", and it complained I was missing 4 libraries. I know SuSe has these libraries, I just didn't have them installed, so I tried adding "base" to my sources.list to see if apt would pick up on them. Installing synaptic still didn't work. So I installed synaptic by hand, and then tried to use it to install tuxkart. Tuxkart complained about missing dependencies too.

If I'm missing dependencies, isn't apt-get supposed to download and install them for me? Maybe I'm just configuring this wrong? Here's my source.list file:

Code:

rpm ftp://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefe...inux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.3-i386 update security rpmkeys suser-rbos suser-jengelh suser-oc2pus suser-guru suser-gbv suser-tcousin suser-scorot suser-jogley suser-ollakka funktronics packman kde base

rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.3-i386 update security rpmkeys suser-rbos suser-jengelh suser-oc2pus suser-guru suser-gbv suser-tcousin suser-scorot suser-jogley suser-ollakka funktronics packman kde base

comprookie2000 · 05-30-2005, 07:57 PM

Not if it can't find them.Gentoo has one big repository portage.you will need to add more sources to your source.list.

dataangel · 05-30-2005, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by comprookie2000
Not if it can't find them.Gentoo has one big repository portage.you will need to add more sources to your source.list.

I thought that might be the issue but whenever I search for "suse apt" with google I end up with the same sites -- the two I've already got. What else should I add?

comprookie2000 · 05-30-2005, 08:34 PM

Which version of SuSe do you have installed?

dataangel · 05-30-2005, 08:45 PM

I'm running 9.3.

Also, I just tried doing "apt-get upgrade". Didn't work, tons of errors complaining about GPG unknown signatures and missing keys:

Code:

Fetched 264MB in 9m42s (454kB/s)
Checking GPG signatures...
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.3.0-4901_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#8eaa1216)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa_1.0.9-0.pm.0_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#5277a2fa)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/speex_1.1.8-0.pm.0_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#5277a2fa)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/k3b_0.11.24-3.pm.0_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#cd3140cd)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/libieee1284_0.2.10-0.pm.1_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#5277a2fa)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-devel_1.0.9-0.pm.0_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#5277a2fa)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/doxygen_1.4.3-1.guru.suse93_i686.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#58857177)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/libcddb_1.0.2-0.pm.0_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#5277a2fa)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpeg2_0.4.0b-21.pm.3_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#5277a2fa)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/procps_3.2.5-4901_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#8eaa1216)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/samba-client_3.0.13-4912_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#8eaa1216)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.13-4912_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#8eaa1216)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_053-4901_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#8eaa1216)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/wget_1.9.1-4906_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#8eaa1216)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/xinetd_2.3.13-4900_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#8eaa1216)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-tools_1.0.9-0.pm.1_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#5277a2fa)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-firmware_1.0.9-0.pm.0_noarch.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#5277a2fa)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/easytag_1.99.4-1.pm.1_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#27db6f5b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/freeciv_2.0.1-1.pm.1_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#27db6f5b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/python-gtk_2.6.1-1.guru.suse93_i686.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#58857177)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp_2.2.7-1.guru.suse93_i686.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#58857177)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/gtk-qt-engine_0.6cvs20050523-3.guru.suse93.kde34_i686.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#58857177)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/k3b-mad_0.11.24-3.pm.0_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#cd3140cd)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/libraw1394_1.2.0-1.pm.2_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#27db6f5b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/libavc1394_0.5.0-1.pm.1_i586.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#27db6f5b)
Unknown signature /var/cache/apt/archives/suse-release_9.3-4900_noarch.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#8eaa1216)

I remember now this is the same problem I ran into with synaptic after I installed its dependencies by hand. :P Any ideas?

rshaw · 05-30-2005, 09:58 PM

'apt search rpmkey' and install any/all with 'apt --no-checksig --no-post install <desired rpmkey >'

here's the full list:

rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/9.3-i386 suser-scorot packman packman-i686 kernel-of-the-day suse-projects rpmkeys base update-drpm update-prpm update kde misc x-ati mozilla samba3 suser-rbos suser-jengelh suser-oc2pus suser-guru suser-gbv usr-local-bin suser-tcousin suser-jogley wine suse-people security-prpm security

dataangel · 05-30-2005, 11:47 PM

I read somewhere using suse-people is a bad idea because it contains experimental packages. Is there really any danger?