DSL-N :: trying to find apt-get

In another thread in this part of the forum it was suggested that apt-get is in the dsl.mydsl package, but not on my install.
I have a fresh downloaded dsl-n full hdd install.
How do I get apt-get?

I guess this:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Apt-get
is outdated, since I don't have this menu entry and dpkg-restore is not on my system either.

Um. I downloaded the dsl-dpkg extension and installed it. I then ran apt-get update and got this:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (2 No such file or directory)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

So i created the directories and got the next set of errors.:
Lists directory and Archive directories missing

UPDATE: Just kept creating the dirs it was asking for. Now it seems to work.

I think you could've just ran apt-get update ..?

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Feb. 10 2007,01:09)

I think you could've just ran apt-get update ..?

Nope. Thats exactly what I tried and what didn't work. The apt dirs were missing. Something is defenitely wrong with my system.

I tried
apt-get install wget and I get this:

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After unpacking 1233kB of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 1) line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4.
) -- aborting
dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

So I go and try
apt-get install perl and get this:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-8.9) but 5.8.0-18 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Which makes absolutely no sense to me, but just to be sure I type:
apt-get install perl-base and get:

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perl-base is already the newest version.

Same with apache:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
apache: Depends: apache-common (>= 1.3.26-0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: apache-common (< 1.3.27-0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: perl5 or
perl but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Not to mention that it can't even find the package apache2 .

So I am really puzzled now.
I tried the standard sources:
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian oldstable main contrib non-free

and those suggested by another member:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ woody main contrib non-free

The result is pretty much the same for both. I ran apt-get update whenever I switched the sources.

Any more ideas?

Just saw you were running dsl-n... I think there was some different setup with it - check the "old" dsl-n forums maybe.

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