I purchaced my first distro today. Suse. I had never used it before and I have wanted to check it out for a long time.
Anyway i have come to rely on apt for other rpm distros so it was the first thing i did with my new suse install. Apparently it wont take yum.
I have been getting a fatal error on apt-get update:
Hit
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/security pkglist
Get:15
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/security release [134B]
Fetched 1474B in 21s (68B/s)
Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt...t.packman-i386 Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.packman-i386.bz2: No such file or directory. '
Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt...packman-noarch Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.packman-noarch.bz2: No such file or directory. '
Reading Package Lists... Done
Collecting File Provides... Error!
E: could not open RPM package list file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.0-i386_base_pkglist.packman-i386:
E: Problem opening /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.0-i386_base_pkglist.packman-i386
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
linux:~ #
I would appreciate any help resolving this matter. Suse Peronal lacks Samba and other packages i need and i see no reason to battle dependencies on a distro that has no apt or yum type artillary.
thanks again
