On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:55 -0600, Matt Selvidge wrote: > I have just recently started using Fedora core 3 and have been having > problems doing the updates. My friend suggested using apt and synaptic > which he showed me and I like alot. My problem is the copy that i > downloaded seems to have a problem (or more likely I did it wrong) i got the > program installed but when I run apt-get update it doesn't get the update > files. It doesnt seem to know where the correct repoitories are. I did a > little research on a forum and they suggested some files to edit and it will > find some things now but I still cannot do core updates. Am I forgetting a > step or could there be another place to get the file from that would be a > better version. The file name is "apt-0.5.15cnc6-11.i386.rpm". I got it > from "http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/3/i386/rpms.extras/";. My > friend has it installed and it works just fine but we dont know where he got > his file from. Any help would be appriciated because I am very new to linux > but I like it and want to start using fedora all the time. Start with reporting the actual errors you are seeing, otherwise it's hard to help. :) There's one known issue currently - if you use the mirror-selector you'll get warnings about source indexes not being found when running "apt-get update", somewhat like this: W: Release file did not contain checksum information for http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/3/i386/base/srclist.os W: Release file did not contain checksum information for http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/3/i386/base/srclist.updates W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Those are harmless (if annoying) and can be fixed by commenting out the rpm-src lines from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mirror-select.list file. The problem isn't so much in the package itself, it's just that the repositories don't have the source indexes at all. Another option is to disable the mirror-update thing alltogether like Bernd suggested. Using apt from eg freshrpms.net is of course a possibility but non-extras apt packages miss all sorts of functionality which you get from the FE apt, like automatic kernel updates. - Panu -
