trying to find apt-get
Forum: DSL-N
Topic: trying to find apt-get
started by: andre75
Posted by andre75 on Feb. 10 2007,04:36
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is outdated, since I don't have this menu entry and dpkg-restore is not on my system either.
Posted by andre75 on Feb. 10 2007,05:15
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.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 10 2007,06:09
I think you could've just ran apt-get update ..?
Posted by andre75 on Feb. 10 2007,09:34
| 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:
| Code Sample |
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:
| Code Sample |
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:
| Code Sample |
perl-base is already the newest version. |
Same with apache:
| Code Sample |
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?
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 10 2007,16:41
Just saw you were running dsl-n... I think there was some different setup with it - check the "old" dsl-n forums maybe.
Posted by andre75 on Feb. 10 2007,19:31
| Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Feb. 10 2007,11:41) |
| Just saw you were running dsl-n... I think there was some different setup with it - check the "old" dsl-n forums maybe. |
Seems like the solution is to copy files from another linux distri (I have none):
< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n....=aptget >
I probably will have to install DSL now that I read this.
I thought the only difference between DSL and DSL-N is that the latter includes more programs and hence is bigger?
UPDATE:
?!$#!
I tried to copy the files from the DSL cd, but couldn't get it mounted so I just installed DSL on my hdd, just to realize that it wouldn't recognize my usb keyboard.So back to installing dsl-n and trying to ftp the files over to the box.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 10 2007,22:26
See < http://damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/ > for some main differences.
Posted by andre75 on Feb. 10 2007,23:00
I found the solution 
I followed these steps:
< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n....=aptget >
(I booted a second machine on dsl and copied the files over
except for /usr/sbin/dpkg-restore which doesn't exist.
Instead I downloaded dsl-dpkg.dsl
from here:
< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....m >
and installed it. I also skipped the step that says:
do:
dpkg-restore
Other than that I followed it to the letter and this got apt-get working.
Now I am struggling with Apache2, sigh. I guess I will go and buy a book now
Andre
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 11 2007,03:44
There's an apache2 package extension in mydsl that you could try... but keep in mind that it was made for dsl.Mods: if it matters, i think this thread should be moved to the dsl-n section.