Missing files with apt-0.5.15lorg3 install

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 21 May 2006 14:34, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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 -

Hi Panu. Thanks for the quick reply. It looks like I'd better do a make 
uninstall then, and wait a few days for it to turn up on extras.

Nigel.
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