[PlanetCCRMA] apt / yum problems

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 00:59 +0100, David Beetham wrote:
> I just ran an update on my fedora core 4 and now apt / synaptic won't
> work ...
> 
> So I uninstalled apt / synaptic ...
> 
> I then did :
>   
> rpm -Uvh
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/rpms/apt-0.5.15cnc6-4.rhfc4.ccrma.i386.rpm
> 
> And then I tried to install synaptic but I get the following :
> 
> [root@dhcppc0 ~]# apt-get install synaptic
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   synaptic
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> E: Lists directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is missing.
> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> [root@dhcppc0 ~]#
> 
> Anybody know what this means ?

Hmmm, make sure you did an "apt-get update" before trying to install
stuff... I have not seen this error before. 

If you want to keep the Planet CCRMA versions of apt and synaptic (and
still add fedora extras in the list of repositories) you could add this
to /etc/apt/preferences:

--------
# more /etc/apt/preferences
Package: apt
Pin: version 0.5.15cnc6*
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: synaptic
Pin: version 0.55.3-1*
Pin-Priority: 1001
--------

-- Fernando


> Alternatively, if anyone could help me set-up the planet reposisitores
> and the dag, dries, freshrpms, newrpms, plus any others in yum, that
> would be even better ...
> 
> I'm currently using YUM to update my fedora core packages, which was
> what brought about this problem with apt ...
> 
> YUM did the following:
> 
> Installed: synaptic.i386 0:0.57.2-1.fc4
> Dependency Installed: fedora-package-config-apt.noarch 0:4-4
> Dependency Updated: apt.i386 0:0.5.15lorg3.1-5.fc4
> 
> ... and this was when my problems started ...
> 
> Any help would be appreciated ...
> 
> DaveB