[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5 Mar, James Gregory wrote: > > > Louis> I googled for this "apt-rpm" and I did not see a version that runs for > > > red Hat 7.1. Or any version will work ?? > > apt-rpm sounds great! > > > http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat-7.1/apt/ > > Ah ha, so it actually works with 7.2 too, I see. > > I fetched http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat-7.2/apt/ > and changed /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the link you gave, above. > > Now it looks like I need to sort out some internal problems: > > E: There are two or more versions of the package 'raidtools' installed in your > system, which is a situation APT can't handle cleanly at the moment. > > I didn't know that! > > # rpm -qa | grep raidtools > raidtools-0.90-24 > raidtools-0.90-23 > > I hate to think what it'll say when it sees what my (working) XFree86 > package is like, due to misuse of rpm during an upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2: > > # rpm -qa | grep -i xfree | sort > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-4.2.0-52.01 > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-52.01 > XFree86-compat-libs-4.0.3-2 > XFree86-devel-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-jpfonts-2.1-24 > XFree86-libs-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-libs-4.2.0-52.01 > XFree86-tools-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-twm-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-xdm-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-52.01 > > luke > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Has anyone tried to upgrade a version ie 7.2 --> 7.3 using apt-rpm if it works it may fix the 12 month lifespan of RedHats. Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
