[ATrpms-users] apt-get unable to find packages - FIXED

[Phill Edwards]

Bob - you're a genius! I ran "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" again 
straight after I ran them the 1st time and then "apt-get install synaptic" 
worked no problem. When I ran it the 2nd time it didn't upgrade any packages 
but it did say it was downloading and reading some packages and building 
dependency trees so I guess it needed those trees to know where to get the 
synaptic file.

Bob & Axel - thanks both for your help. Axel, please ignore my reply to your 
message now!

Thanks guys,
Phill

>From: Bob <>
>Reply-To: To: Phill Edwards <phill_edwards at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [ATrpms-users] apt-get unable to find packages
>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:45:20 -0500
>
>Phill Edwards wrote:
>>I'm setting up a new FC2 system following Jarod Wilson'd excellent guide 
>>and am using apt-get for the 1st time (always just used plain old rpm 
>>before). I completed the FC2 install and successfully ran apt-get update 
>>&& apt-get dist-upgrade which upgraded all my packages but now every time 
>>I try to install something just get the same error message as follows:
>
><snip>
>
>>Can anyone help with how to fix this?
>
>Your sources.list looks fine for the purposes of installing myth. After the 
>initial apt-get update and dist-upgrade complete, you may want to repeat 
>both commands. The apt package is replaced in the first go around. Synaptic 
>installs just fine for me so you may need to freshen up the database by 
>hitting it a second time. Any time you modify sources.list, you should 
>issue an apt-get update command.
>
>The current kickstart package at ATRPMS is a bare minimum required to 
>install Myth. From Jarod's guide:
>
>"The adventurous people out there might want to enable at-testing and 
>install medley-package-config to get the old default sources.list that has 
>a myriad of repositories pre-configured. The less-adventurous can skip on 
>down to the next section. If you want to take the plunge, then edit 
>/etc/apt/sources.list, replacing at-stable with at-testing. After that, run 
>these commands:
>	# apt-get update
>	# apt-get install medley-package-config
>	# mv /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmnew /etc/apt/sources.list
>	# apt-get update
>That should outfit you with access to a ton of different repositories."
>
>If you were looking to install packages not required by myth, consider 
>using the above steps as it will broaden the number of repositories in 
>available to apt and cover most of the popular RPMs available for FC2.
>
>Good luck.