Thanks Warren. I was finally able to get it working, though I'm not sure I can replicate the setup on another system.
First I tried installing unixODBC from unixODBC.org and that's when I was running into problems. However the Easysoft(easysoft.org) Oracle driver comes with unixODBC, that seemed to work fine. I would still love to find a free(as in cost) Oracle ODBC driver for Linux if possible(easysoft charges money). Does anybody know where to look? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren Togami Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [luau] apt-get ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vikram Khurana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:23 PM Subject: [luau] apt-get > > Can you please explain how to get apt-get to work with RPM.(also where > do I get apt-get from?) I searched google & found http://www.a-a-p.org, > but their stuff is in the pre-alpha phase http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/ APT-RPM for Red Hat repository APT-RPM is unsupported when used with Red Hat, but I heard it works well. APT-RPM is used natively for the Conectiva Linux distribution from Brazil. > > I'm a LINUX newbie pretending to be an intermediate user. I've been > trying to get unixODBC working on my RH 7.3 and am running into > dependency hell. Maybe apt-get is the solution.... Two things... 1) Where did you get that unixODBC package? Is it an official Red Hat package or add-on? Please provide URL's so I can check it out. 2) Red Hat itself has an apt-get like tool that handles automatic dependency resolution called up2date. You must register to RHN in order to use it. Anyone can create a RHN account and have free update access for one computer. After you are registered you can install packages like in this example. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qi nmap-frontend package nmap-frontend is not installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# up2date nmap-frontend Retrieving list of all available packages... ######################################## Removing installed packages from list of updates... ######################################## Removing packages with files not specified from list... Removing packages marked to skip from list... ######################################## Getting headers for available packages... ######################################## Removing packages with files marked to skip from list... ######################################## Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... ######################################## The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: Name Version Release -------------------------------------------------------------- nmap 2.54BETA31 1 Retrieving selected packages... nmap-frontend-2.54BETA31-1. ########################## Done. nmap-2.54BETA31-1.i386.rpm: ########################## Done. Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:nmap ########################################### [ 50%] 2:nmap-frontend ########################################### [100%] _______________________________________________ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau