[SOLVED] apt sources

[dvdljns]

I have apt on suse 10.0 and would like to upgrade it. but can not get it to except my sources.

Http://download.opensuse.org/distabution/10.3/repo/oss/
What do I need to put here.

[oz]

I have apt on suse 10.0 and would like to upgrade it. but can not get it to except my sources.

Http://download.opensuse.org/distabution/10.3/repo/oss/
What do I need to put here.

That source link doesn't work at all, so maybe that's why apt is not working for you.

[dvdljns]

That source link doesn't work at all, so maybe that's why apt is not working for you.

I have a list of source lists. None of them work. Do you have one that does. Does anybody? So far it looks to me to be the normal linux way. Programs that do not work untill they are rewritten. Thats par for course with linux. I can download from that link.

[oz]

It's most likely a configuration error.

If you'll post your sources list here maybe someone can look at it and see why it's not working.

[HROAdmin26]

Using apt in Suse is NOT the normal way. Suse is built using the rpm standard and YaST manages these packages natively.

Enabling and using apt is outside the norm and it is not installed by default.

No, you can't download from the link you posted - notice the spelling error:

I have apt on suse 10.0 and would like to upgrade it. but can not get it to except my sources.

Http://download.opensuse.org/distabution/10.3/repo/oss/

openSuSE's APT page has an example sources.list file.

#Main 10.3 Repository
repomd http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/suse/ /
repomd http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/suse/ /

#VideoLAN
repomd http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/10.3/ /

#NVIDIA
repomd http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.3/ /

#Packman
repomd http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.3/ /

#APT for RPM
repomd http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rbos/openSUSE_10.3/ /

Suse explicitly lists many repositories.

[dvdljns]

E: Type 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/' is not known in on line 6 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.

This is the error I am getting.

Package Repositories - openSUSE
This is the list I am using.

Here is my sources list.

# A very basic sources.list file.
# Remove "base" in case you are behind a slow connection.
# Fastest repository comes first, with netselect it is possible to determine
# the fastest repository easily.
# Visit the server to determine which apt components are provided.
 http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/
# The list with all available components can be found at:
# http://linix01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm
# Some components provide experimental software, select wisely!
# 
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/
# Consult the link above if you want to include uri's for src rpm

[oz]

That looks like a sources list that has been setup to use YaST, so you are probably going to have to make up your mind about whether you are going to use YaST, or Apt. If you are going to use Apt, you'll probably need to setup your sources list like in the example posted by HROAdmin26, above.

Package managers for Debian and openSUSE work differently and that's why HROAdmin26 recommended that you use the openSUSE default package manager. You are only making things harder than they need to be for yourself and those that try to help you when you try to mix the components of two different package managers.

[HROAdmin26]

#Main 10.3 Repository
repomd http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/suse/ /
repomd http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/suse/ /

#VideoLAN
repomd http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/10.3/ /

#NVIDIA
repomd http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.3/ /

#Packman
repomd http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.3/ /

#APT for RPM
repomd http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rbos/openSUSE_10.3/ /

# = Comments and ignored by apt

Format as shown in the example:

IDENTIFIER [space] REPO_PATH [space] FORWARD_SLASH

# A very basic sources.list file.
# Remove "base" in case you are behind a slow connection.
# Fastest repository comes first, with netselect it is possible to determine
# the fastest repository easily.
# Visit the server to determine which apt components are provided.

repomd http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/ /

# The list with all available components can be found at:
# http://linix01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm
# Some components provide experimental software, select wisely!
# 

repomd http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/ /

# Consult the link above if you want to include uri's for src rpm

* I will again second Ozar's comments and recommend using the default YaST (GUI) and zypper (command line) tools for package management.

[dvdljns]

I could get it to except the links in yast2 but it would not do a upgrade. I am sure that apt will do the upgrade but found another answer to my problem. I used my last cd to burn the 11.1 livecd and installed that then used yast2 to load the other programs. not sure how closed it is to the real install and got a lot of stuff the 10.1 install cds did not give me. But it is something to learn on. I also started the paperwork to take computor science class at the hudson comunity collage. Part of the course is basic unix and linux operating systems then advanced in those and basic and advanced courses in java. Thats sort of the long way around but it will give me a structured way of learning and the books to do it by. I read the course discriptions real close and a lot of it is hands on. Oh well thank you for your help.