CUPS under RH 7.3/8.0

[Mark Komarinski]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:11:37PM -0500, Dan Coutu wrote:
> Mark Komarinski wrote:
> >1) Get apt-get for RPM.  Gives the best combination of using existing
> >RPM files while getting the network/dependency/updating features that
> >APT uses.  You can get a copy at freshrpms.net.  Get the one for your
> >version, then apt-get update and apt-get upgrade.  Let it finish.
> >
> >2) apt-get install cups cups-devel gimp-print-cups cups-drivers
> >There may be other dependencies that apt-get will install.
> >
> 
> Hmm, so I tried the above two steps on my 7.3 system and get:
> 
> # apt-get install cups cups-devel gimp-print-cups cups-drivers
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Collecting File Provides... Error!
> E: could not open RPM package list file 
> /var/state/apt/lists/apt.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_pkglist.os: 
> (no error)
> E: Problem opening 
> /var/state/apt/lists/apt.freshrpms.net_redhat_7.3_en_i386_base_pkglist.os
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> It would appear that I get this error because the file that it can't open
> doesn't exist! Any idea why? Or how to create it? Nothing in the apt 
> related man pages provides a command or switch that corrects the problem.

Did the apt-get update work?

-Mark
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