SUSE 9 and apt-get?

[bigmac99]

Is there a version of Apt-get for Suse 9? Is this something that I just run local on my machine and it will go out to the internet and grab the apps?

Or is YAST the best way to go?

The reason I ask is that there are several things that I want to install that are not listed in YAST.

Thanks
Charles

[JayMan8081]

You can use Apt-Get under SuSe to get RPMs and install them. This will go out onto the Internet though to get the most recent builds of the packages you select. I think it can also be configured to simply use your SuSe CDs as well, but if you are going to do that it would be easiest to use Yast2 since it is already setup.

[bigmac99]

Originally posted by JayMan8081
You can use Apt-Get under SuSe to get RPMs and install them. This will go out onto the Internet though to get the most recent builds of the packages you select. I think it can also be configured to simply use your SuSe CDs as well, but if you are going to do that it would be easiest to use Yast2 since it is already setup.

I have downloaded apt and ran a successful apt-get upgrade on my system. but, when I do something like apt-get install mplayer or apt-get install gdesklets, I get the following message and then it says package name not found or something similar. What have I done wrong? how can I remove one of the duplicates of glade2?

bigmac@linux:~> apt-cache search gdesklets
W: There are multiple versions of "glade2" in your system.

This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^glade2$"; };

To disable these warnings completely set:

RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";

thanks
Charles

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by bigmac99

W: There are multiple versions of "glade2" in your system.


What does

rpm -qa | grep glade

show as being installed?

My SuSE 9.0 Pro reports

glade2-2.0.0-96
libglade-0.17-44
libglade2-2.0.1-310