apt for FC2 - WORKING VERSION HERE!

[svarreby]

I have searched and posted everywere about this topic ... now I have found the solution.

APT for Fedora Core 2 - test 1:

http://fedora.laiskiainen.org/fc2-test/apt-0.5.15cnc5-0.fdr.7.i386.rpm

Other files (source, devel- and python) are there too!


Happy apt-ing :)

[Ug]

Happy man. I'm glad you found a copy.

[Bana]

Can someone move this thread to the links forum?

[Ug]

I've copied it.

[Bobmeister]

Fedora.us has one that is in a "pending" folder in their ftp. I have used it with success...and it has a cool repository wizard that you run through to configure your mirrors. It configures a file that you DO NOT edit. There is another file that you can add other third-party reporitories like livna and such...however Livna has only posted about 4 stable releases yet for FC2....but I'm sure that they will pump quite a few out by the time test 2 comes out!

[Ug]

That sounds like a much better improvement on the current config editing situation.

[Elison]

Bobmeister:could you please explain how to use this mirror tool, do you mean when I don´t edit the sources.list that its be done by redhat?

thx

[Bobmeister]

Hey, Ellison!

Sure...if you got the apt from fedora.us, there is a new wizard that will walk you through the configuration of the MAIN sources list. The first time you use apt-get from the command line, the wizard will start and ask you to pick mirrors. You pick them by number and then when done, hit "c" for continue...and after doing that process you are SET.

This sets the mirror sites for fedora.us and will only give you the normal stuff from THEM (extras and stable stuff that you ask for)...

The file is NOT the normal sources.list file. THAT file still exists and you can ADD your own additional reporitories THERE (like livna and such)...it's a SEPARATE file...apt looks at BOTH files when doing the updates. You will see commented TEXT warning you NOT to edit the auto-configured file, and text saying to enter additional repositories on the normal sources.list
file.

Now, another new thing is the configuration file. By default, apt-get will NOT install unsigned downloads. With Fedora TEST NONE of the packages are signed...so you will have to UNCOMMENT the "false" line for GPG signature checking by removing the double slash mards "//" in front of the line. It explains what to do in the file.

Then you should be set. It works great once conifigured correctly.

See if this stuff works.

Bob

[Elison]

any mirrors for the extra and mplyer/mozilla/flash packages out there?
I don´t wanna make any mistake like the last time, I installed today Fedora Core 2 again.
This are my sources, i copied my old /var/cache/apt/archives folder back into the new installation, so it only needs to get 400Mb from 900MB with an dist-upgrade.
Is KDE 3.2.1 allready in the stable tree, it wanna download it.

# Fedora Core (Technical University Chemnitz, Germany)
rpm http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora fedora/1.90/i386 os updates
rpm-src http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora fedora/1.90/i386 os updates

# Fedora Core (University of Applied Sciences Esslingen, Germany)
rpm http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/fedora/fedora fedora/1.90/i386 os updates
rpm-src http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/fedora/fedora fedora/1.90/i386 os updates

# Fedora Extras (Technical University Chemnitz, Germany)
rpm http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora fedora/1.90/i386 stable
rpm-src http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora fedora/1.90/i386 stable

# Fedora Extras (University of Applied Sciences Esslingen, Germany)
rpm http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/fedora/fedora fedora/1.90/i386 stable
rpm-src http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/fedora/fedora fedora/1.90/i386 stable

[Bobmeister]

For the media stuff, I llike to use Livna as they work closely with the "official" Fedora.us repository and the releases are "kinda" sanctioned. DO NOT MIX Livna repository with Freshrpm's as sometimes there are copatibility issues.

So add in the sources.list file:

rpm http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/1.90/i386 stable (for Fedora 2 test one)...if you are using Fedora 1 make sure you use the fedora 1 repository.

For Flash, I think that there is already a macromedia site in there for apt (assuming you got apt from fedora.us) however, I just install using the script installer provided directly from Macromedia.

for Mozilla, if you decide to updated or NOT use the provided Mozilla rpms...again, I just go to Mozilla and get the NON-RPM versions of whatever program you want and I usually install it in /usr/local. Be careful to make sure any previous versions are completely removed before doing manual software installations.

I use about 50 to 60% rpms and many times source and direct installations on my machine. Many people will tell you to either stay with rpms ONLY or something like that but if you are careful and keep a mental picture of what's installed and not (write it down), you can mix and match all kinds of things. THAT way, I don't always have to wait for the "official" versions...I can get the latest stuff myself.

For Mozilla, make sure that you get or find the GTK2 and XFT versions...NOT the stock versions.

I dumped Mozilla and use Firefox and Thunderbird for browsing and mail, respectively...both came without installers and are in /usr/local...you'll have to create your own links for your menu, desktop, and command-line if you like.