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

> But Guido _just_ (I think 2 weeks ago) installed the beast (that's the whole
> system).  I must assume that he picked up an old version, or something like
> that..., we will hear...

The man is correct. (I gave him quite a bit more background then the
rest of you. I'll fill in later.) I used to be running WinXP Pro on
this system (http://www.guidoz.com/BigBlue), as I've been a Windows
guy for as long as it's been around. (I remember first playing with
3.1... fascinated me that I could see PICTURES while typing. heh.)

A month and a half ago, the WinXP HDD died. (My other HDD in my mirror
RAID had died less then a week earlier and I had yet to replace it.
Grrrr.) So, before attempting a reinstall, I decided I was going to do
some updates to BigBlue. (New mobo, likely go dual-proc, etc.)
However, I didn't have the time to be down while I waited for new
parts and took the time to build it. I needed to run something now...
Well, I had heard about the Knoppix Live CD and decided to give it a
try. LOVED IT! It ran beautifully on BigBlue, finding every device and
drive without a hitch. (Even my USB memory reader for my digi cam.) I
was impressed. The last time I had toyed with Linux was around RedHat
6.2-7.0 days. I was able to get RedHat installed and running pretty
well, but never ventured to learn much else.

After running Knoppix for about a month, I yearned for more a Linux
distro that I could actually install to normally (plus have more then
128MB home drive). Being it was based on Debian (and I've always heard
good things about Debian), I tried it first. It was a royal pain to
get installed on BigBlue. In fact, a good friend of mine (who used to
write for LinuxJournal and Lockergnome's Penguin Shell) also was
stumped. I decided to go with a simplier distro - SuSE. I've been
running it right about 2 weeks, give or take a day.

After getting into it, I remembered what I had liked about Debian -
apt-get. I quickly found the apt4rpm page
(http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/) which eventually lead me to here. =D
I've been hardcore in Windows tech support and consulting for over a
decade, but consider myself hardly above a Linux n00b. I understand
the basics and some of the lingo, but it's frustrating to be a n00b
again sometimes. Hence why I appreciate all the help thus far. =)

So, if anyone ever has a Windows question, please feel free to pick my
brain off-list. I'd consider myself quite "learned" in everything
related to Windows (security, software, hardware, networking, etc)
except programming. (C/C++ is my next adventure. I do know a bit about
Perl.) Be happy to help out with something if I could. ;)

--
Peace. ~G


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:41:09 +0200, Richard Bos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Op donderdag 23 september 2004 20:19, schreef Panu Matilainen:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Ok - things like this can easily happen with %config(noreplace) - you
> > modify the local config just a little bit and if things change enough to
> > cause breakage (like in this case) the configuration fitting the new
> > scheme still sits in <some-conf-file>.rpmnew. Which is probably what's
> > happened here...
> 
> But Guido _just_ (I think 2 weeks ago) installed the beast (that's the whole
> system).  I must assume that he picked up an old version, or something like
> that..., we will hear...
> 
> Strange error msg though for a missing conf file ;/
> stat64("/usr/bin/aptrpm", 0xbfffecfc)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> E: Unable to determine a suitable system type
> 
> 
> --
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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