Smart package installer

pauljb1234 · 02-10-2007, 06:49 AM

Hi people, am another newbie to linux! bet your use to hearing that. Anyway i keep coming across problems in linux that i cant fix.

I had been running pclinuxos 0.93 which i loved, but it didnt have the right graphics drivers for my radeon 9700, and when i installed them things went bad and i cudnt startx again, so i went back to madrivia 2007 as i liked the way when i get a rpm off the net it will find (most of the time) its depenecies.

Rite well my problem is i am using smart package manager, as the madnrivia update thing doesnt work in 2007. What i am trying to do is add the pclinuxos repository to my smart.

(address of it)
http
distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/

(List of others found here)
pclinuxonline.com/wiki/SynapticRepositories

I have tried going to Edit>Channels>new>Provide channel info this we it seems to read it and download something but it doesnt come up in the channels,

i didnt have a go adding it manually as i didnt know where to go.

P.s. i want to install it to get a few of the games pclinuxos have that i cant get off mandrivia.

THanks for you time

PTrenholme · 02-10-2007, 09:47 AM

AFAIK, the "Provide Chanel Information" option is where you input the information by hand, so I'm confused by your statement that you didn't "have a go adding it manually." Perhaps smart works differently on your distribution than it does on my Fedora one.

pauljb1234 · 02-10-2007, 04:28 PM

sorry you are right that is the manual way, i wasnt sure how to add the address that way

the first option i tried that i mentioned wrongly was "read channel description from url" it seems to download info like the other channels do, but it doesnt appear in the channel list.

So you know how to add this manually?

thanks for your help

pauljb1234 · 02-11-2007, 04:57 PM

Anyone know?

PTrenholme · 02-12-2007, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pauljb1234

Anyone know?

At the risk of seeming pedantic (which I am, of course) there is a manual page for smart

For example,

Code:

$ smart channel --help
Usage: smart channel [options]

This command allows one to manipulate channels. Channels are
used as sources of information about installed and available
packages. Depending on the channel type, a different backend
is used to handle interactions with the operating system and
extraction of information from the given channel.

The following channel types are available:

  apt-deb    - APT-DEB Repository
  apt-rpm    - APT-RPM Repository
  deb-dir    - DEB Directory
  deb-sys    - DPKG Installed Packages
  mirrors    - Mirror Information
  red-carpet - Red Carpet Channel
  rpm-dir    - RPM Directory
  rpm-hdl    - RPM Header List
  rpm-md     - RPM MetaData
  rpm-sys    - RPM Installed Packages
  slack-site - Slackware Repository
  slack-sys  - Slackware Installed Packages
  up2date-mirrors - Mirror Information (up2date format)
  urpmi      - URPMI Repository
  yast2      - YaST2 Repository

Use --help-type <type> for more information.

Options:
  -h, --help        Show this help message and exit
  --add             Argument is an alias and one or more key=value pairs
                    defining a channel, or a filename/url pointing to a channel
                    description in the same format used by --show, or a
                    directory path where autodetection will be tried
  --set             Argument is an alias, and one or more key=value pairs
                    modifying a channel
  --remove          Arguments are channel aliases to be removed
  --remove-all      Remove all existent channels
  --show            Show channels with given aliases, or all channels if no
                    arguments were given
  --edit            Edit channels in editor set by $editor
  --enable          Enable channels with given aliases
  --disable         Disable channels with given aliases
  -y, --yes         Execute without asking
  --help-type=TYPE  Show further information about given type

Examples:
  smart channel --help-type apt-rpm
  smart channel --add mydb type=rpm-sys name="RPM Database"
  smart channel --add mychannel type=apt-rpm name="Some repository" \
                    baseurl=http://somewhere.com/pub/repos components=extra
  smart channel --set mychannel priority=-100
  smart channel --disable mychannel
  smart channel --remove mychannel
  smart channel --show
  smart channel --show mychannel > mychannel.txt
  smart channel --add ./mychannel.txt
  smart channel --add http://some.url/mychannel.txt
  smart channel --add /mnt/cdrom

<edit>
You might want to look at Mr. Bleser's files for some shell scripts and SuSE suggestion that might help.

Also, this article [pdf] is SuSE-specific, and might be of some value to you.
</edit>

pauljb1234 · 02-13-2007, 04:03 PM

sorry for causing you trouble,

But of these channels types what would i need use with the address in my first post?

Thanks