Re: Apt error (tried other mailing list & Google), please help!

Op donderdag 23 september 2004 19:02, schreef Panu Matilainen:
> > stat64("/usr/bin/aptrpm", 0xbfffecfc)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> > directory)
>
> Things usually work because this check is by default done on /bin/rpm.
> Depending on how you look at it, it's either a configuration or
> packaging error (a missing dependency) in the apt package you're using.
> Somewhere in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d files "Dir::Bin::rpm" config item is
> set to "/usr/bin/aptrpm" - delete that setting and it should start

Hmmm, I think it will be the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.  if so, it means that 
Guido has an old aptrpm version installed or ..... something else but what...

> working. Or alternatively install the package providing /usr/bin/aptrpm,
> Richard can help with this...

I used to ship aptrpm till I changed it to just apt..., and that is about a 
long time ago.  My cvs log goes back 1 year (only) and no aptrpm is mentioned 
in the log or diff.

> > E: Unable to determine a suitable system type
> >
> > Hmm. Well that's interesting. The first "No such file or directory" is
> > true. The file it's looking for (which is finds later on I see, plus
> > errors on again) is at "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/apt.conf".
>
> Yep, but missing /etc/apt/apt.conf is not fatal, it's just
> *traditionally* the main configuration file.

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Richard Bos
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