Missing files with apt-0.5.15lorg3 install

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Nigel Henry wrote:

> Hi. Up to FC4 I've been using apt-0.5.15cnc6, with various revisions depending
> on the FC version, and obtained from planetccrma. Fernando has now moved over
> to using Yum on FC5. I still want apt on FC5, and have installed
> apt-0.5.15lorg3.tar.bz2. Apart from a couple of complaints from configure,
> for bz2-devel, and rpm-devel, which I fixed, configure ran ok, and make
> likewise, Make install went ok, but there are some files missing.
>
> I have a directory for apt in /usr/local/lib, and a
> subdirectory /usr/local/lib/methods, which contains some binaries.
>
> I also have in /usr/local/bin, apt-get, apt-cache, etc,
>
> I have no /etc/apt directory, and consequently, no sources.list, apt.conf, or
> the other files that are normally there.
>
> Also there is no /var/cache/apt directory.

This is to be expected, "make install" doesn't create a functional 
installation at currently so it's up to the packager to do these things. 
Much of these things could (and arguably should) be done from "make 
install" of course.

> Any suggestions would be very welcome. Should I perhaps have installed it
> in /usr , rather than the default /usr/local?
>
> The output from make install is attached below.

You should find new apt packages for FC4 and 5 in a few days from Fedora 
Extras. Right now it's only built for development repository of FE, of 
course you can try that as well.

 	- Panu -