> > > > So I'm probably stating the obvious, but I'd start by checking that the > > machine has a working copy of bzip2. Yeah, he is there and working. Tested downloding the files using wget and then 'bzip2 -d'd them.
> Those files are on freshrpms, I can > > see them from here anyway. Yp I can see them :-) > Is there any possibility that there's some > > sort of connectivity problem getting in the way? Doesn't seem that way, the manual download of the files worked not a problem (using wget) > Lastly, I'd ask rpm to > > verify the installation of apt and see if that reveals anything. If you > > aren't sure of its origins perhaps you should download a known good copy > > from freshrpms and install that. Could be that someone installed apt > > from RPMs for a newer redhat ignoring dependencies or something. I didn't get rpm to verify, What I did do was check the db version, RPM v4.04, then downloaded apt for 7.3 (supporting RPM v4.04) I then tried rpm -Uvh <rpm package> but said it wouldn't install because it was already that version so, just to be sure I forced it to update it (in case it was corrupt) (maybe that's what the rpm verification does yeah ? I stopped using RedHat in 1999). .. so Im now waiting for the box to pull down it's 200 odd Meg of rpm's to update itself (which is what got it in the mess in the first place I think). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
