[Mithrilhall]

I'm kind of new to linux and I want to install apt on Suse. I've found some sites dealing with this but none have worked so far.

Could someone point me in the right direction?


Thanks

[Whiteskin]

it depends. Are you using apt to try to get a package that's availiable in .deb, but not rpm? or are you trying to debianize your suse installation? Or are you trying to install apt4rpm?

if it's the first, I'd look into a program called alien before looking into a full blown apt install. The second, well, that could get vewy interesting.

The third, have you looked here? http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/

[Mithrilhall]

Apt4rpm is what I was originally looking at but I don't know what to install.

I see a lot of information about installing programs/packages with apt but I don't see how to install apt.

[Whiteskin]

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=27593 is where I think you want to go.

[Mithrilhall]

Ok...how do you install something without ending in dependency hell?

This is what has always turned me off from Linux. Apt sounds good but it looks like it might be to much trouble to install at this point.

[Whiteskin]

Well, that's the point of apt. It may be better to just say 'screw it' and move onto a disto that DOESN'T have dep. hell. Any debain based one, gentoo, and there must be others too.

[Mithrilhall]

Is Gentoo hard to install?

I would like a distro based on Debian that comes with KDE as the default GUI. I'm not so hot around the command line yet.

[tsunam]

Hmm, if you can follow instructions exactly you can install gentoo. If you want a system that runs now...don't bother with gentoo. It takes work to get it up. Since it is from source so you compile everything.

Oh, and to install gentoo, its all console based . Learn it, love it, never leave it again...that's how you get to be with the console.

[Mithrilhall]

I actually got Gentoo installed once....but I had problems getting KDE up and running so I abandoned it.

[FF103]

You sound like an excellent candidate for Yoper Linux. It's debian based and uses apt-get to install packages.

[Mithrilhall]

I used Yoper way back when it was pre 1.0 but I never knew it was based on Debian.

I'm downloading the newest version now.


Thanks

[FF103]

I believe 2.1 is the newest for now, but as soon as they get their servers back up they say they have 2.2 almost ready to go. If you go to yoper.com and tab down the page, you can find the current apt-get sites, and I believe you can add to that list with some of the testing or unstable sites if you want.I think you'll like it. From what I understand they kind of used a little bit of the best parts of several distros, but it seems to lean towards debian more than any of the others.

[I Fix 4 U]

knoppix is debian and whiteskin, your a good linux user why not embark on "debianizing" suse. sounds neat i wish i had the time to try. not much linux activity for a long time, starting back up on it today by figuring out what i'm to do with my 160gb hardrive probably whiping the whole thing and considering suse 9.1 personal w/ pro packages via ftp.

[Whiteskin]

For me, it's just too much of a pain in the arse to do that kind of thing. If I were to embark on a long linux journey, I'd much rather go out and build the perfect LFS system.

[I Fix 4 U]

Yast and apt-get don't seem like they'd get along, though you could sure skin it enough and change a few things i beleive you're right, a perfect (linux from scratch-right?) system would be awesome. Seems like i'd need to master gentoo just to get started with that one. oh dear. I'll ask the guys at the LUG what they think about the idea, though they will probably be even more reluctant lol.

w/e sounds like a neat project to embark on just to see how i like it- check me out here> http://forums.techguy.org/showthread...51#post2121851