CentOS - Mar 2005 - A Problem : Can NOT install APT or Synaptic for v4.0

Hello,

There was no problem installing "APT" package in
CentOS 4.0 Beta, but so far I could not install
APT or Synaptic by "# yum install apt" or
by "# yum install synaptic" in a usual manner.

Is there any solution for this?
It seems to me, something is wrong only for these
two packages.

Regards.

Green wrote:
> There was no problem installing "APT" package in
> CentOS 4.0 Beta, but so far I could not install
> APT or Synaptic by "# yum install apt" or
> by "# yum install synaptic" in a usual manner.
>
> Is there any solution for this?
> It seems to me, something is wrong only for these
> two packages.
>
what Arch are you using ? apt-rpm is very much broken on x86_64

if you are using i386 - upgrade to Final/Release.

- K
--
Karanbir Singh   : http://www.karan.org/
GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 21:44 +0900, Green wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There was no problem installing "APT" package in
> CentOS 4.0 Beta, but so far I could not install
> APT or Synaptic by "# yum install apt" or
> by "# yum install synaptic" in a usual manner.
>
> Is there any solution for this?
> It seems to me, something is wrong only for these
> two packages.
>
yum should be able to install them ... they are now extras and not part
of the main distro.  This is due to lack of support for multi-arch
libraries that are required (or possible) on all our CentOS-4 releases
except i386.

I just did a:

yum install apt synaptic

and it worked

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You will need to pick a mirror and update the /etc/apt/sources.list
file ... here is what I have in mine (everything else is remarked out):

rpm http://mirror.centos.org centos/4/apt/i386 os updates extras addons

--
Johnny Hughes
<http://www.HughesJR.com/>
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Hi,


On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 07:06:18AM -0600, Johnny Hughes
wrote:
>
> yum should be able to install them ... they are now extras and not part
> of the main distro.  This is due to lack of support for multi-arch
> libraries that are required (or possible) on all our CentOS-4 releases
> except i386.
>
Small correction. s390 is clean arch too given that''s it''s
only running 31bit. Why it''s 31bit, it''s another story and has
to do
with supporting the legacy 24bit addressing mode. The CPU for that arch
is 32bit, not 31bit.

If i have all the facts right, IBM did sacrifice half of the address
space for that 24bit legacy mode (the 32th bit was used for marking
24bit mode commands IMO).

But Johnny is right. apt is laking the multiarch mode which is keeping
it not so good choice for most of the archs. Most notable x86-64.
The ia64 could have ia32-libs/bins on it, but as it''s built,
it''s 64bit
clean built w/o any other binaries included. That cvould use apt, but
we do already have two form on repodata (yum 2.2.x and legacy for
up2data), so it''s not worth of it at all ...




--
Pasi Pirhonen - upi@iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

Thank you.
>if you are using i386 - upgrade to Final/Release.
This time, I chose a fresh install of Version 4.0,
available from
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin1of4.iso 629640 KB 2005-02-27
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin2of4.iso 651234 KB 2005-02-27
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin3of4.iso 649558 KB 2005-02-27
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin4of4.iso 232380 KB 2005-02-27

A following message appeared:

# yum install apt
................
Transaction Listing:
  Install: apt.i386 0:0.5.15cnc6-1.1.centos4 - extras
Total download size: 2.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4fe06303
public key not available for apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.centos4.i386.rpm

Regards.

Did you import the GPG key?

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces@caosity.org] On
Behalf Of Green
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:22 AM
To: centos@caosity.org
Subject: [Centos] A Problem : Can NOT install APT or Synaptic for v4.0

Thank you.
>if you are using i386 - upgrade to Final/Release.
This time, I chose a fresh install of Version 4.0, available from
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin1of4.iso 629640 KB 2005-02-27 CentOS-4.0-i386-bin2of4.iso
651234 KB 2005-02-27 CentOS-4.0-i386-bin3of4.iso 649558 KB 2005-02-27
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin4of4.iso 232380 KB 2005-02-27

A following message appeared:

# yum install apt
................
Transaction Listing:
  Install: apt.i386 0:0.5.15cnc6-1.1.centos4 - extras Total download size:
2.1 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages:
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4fe06303 public
key not available for apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.centos4.i386.rpm

Regards.
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>Did you import the GPG key?
Yes, of cource, by commiting "rpm --import ***"

I am plannig to re-install V4.0 for a "REAL" Final
release into a testing machine so far,
whether or not to confirm this trouble depending
only to my environment, as you say yum install
apt synaptic works fine."

Regards.

>>   Install: apt.i386 0:0.5.15cnc6-1.1.centos4 - extras Total download
size:
>> 2.1 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages:
>> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4fe06303
public
>> key not available for apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.centos4.i386.rpm
> Did you import the GPG key?
The Centos-4.0 key does not work, and the Centos-4.0beta key is nowhere
to be found :-(

/Morten

Thank you for all your advices.

I got a solution for the problem:

rpm -Fvh
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/centos-release-4-0.1.i386.rpm

The above command as required before "yum install apt" for
a version available from
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin1of4.iso 629640 KB 2005-02-27
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin2of4.iso 651234 KB 2005-02-27
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin3of4.iso 649558 KB 2005-02-27
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin4of4.iso 232380 KB 2005-02-27
(** These are NOT official released version.)

Thank you, Karanbir Singh for your posting:
[Centos] End Of Life : CentOS 4 i386 ( Rc1/ Beta2/ Beta ) and CentOS 4 ia64
(Rc1/ Beta ) http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003047.html

Regards.

On Fri, March 4, 2005 9:08 am, Morten Kjeldgaard said:
>>>   Install: apt.i386 0:0.5.15cnc6-1.1.centos4 - extras Total
download
>>> size:
>>> 2.1 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages:
>>> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
4fe06303
>>> public
>>> key not available for apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.centos4.i386.rpm
>
>> Did you import the GPG key?
>
> The Centos-4.0 key does not work, and the Centos-4.0beta key is nowhere
> to be found :-(
>
> /Morten
They have been signed by the new key ... but the mirror you used my be out
of sync.

It can take a day for all the CentOS mirrors to update.

Try again later ... you may need to do yum clean to redownload the good
apt and synaptic.

--
Johnny Hughes
<http://www.HughesJR.com/>

On Fri Mar 4 17:45:31 UTC 2005, Mr.Johnny Hughes worte:
>They have been signed by the new key ... but the mirror you used my be out
>of sync.
>
>It can take a day for all the CentOS mirrors to update.
>
>Try again later ... you may need to do yum clean to redownload the good
>apt and synaptic.
Thank you.
So a system here is APTable now as follows;

# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386 release [2026B]
Fetched 2026B in 0s (11.7kB/s)
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/os pkglist
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/os release
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/updates pkglist
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/updates release
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/contrib pkglist
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/contrib release
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/addons pkglist
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/addons release
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/extras pkglist
Hit http://ftp.riken.jp /Linux/caos/centos/4.0/apt/i386/extras release
warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

But, "warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages"
always appears when committing APT-GET.
It seems to me, a some trouble is going on behind for "extras".

Regards,
     Green.

Dnia 06-03-2005, nie o godzinie 12:40 +0900, Green
napisa?(a):
> warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
You were running some other rpmlib app in the background, like up2date,
rpm, yum, another apt-get, whatever :)

Lam

>ON Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:39:03 +0100, Mr. Leszek Matok wrote:
>You were running some other rpmlib app in the background, like up2date,
>rpm, yum, another apt-get, whatever :)
Thank you.
It may be so, but I did not explicitly run anything else.

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P.S.

When I reset the mirror repository (RIKEN, Japan) from
Synaptic''s preferences menu, the "warning" disappeared
by sudden afterwards, though I did not modified anything else.

As long as I could confirmed right now, there appears
no error messages or warnings and it seems APT works normally.

Regards.