[PlanetCCRMA] apt for FC4?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I did my update to FC4 from FC2. The update itself went OK but the
> machine's usefulness in the short term is now in question. Gnome menus
> appear to be completely hosed. I have nothing left so I cannot get to
> apps, etc. HEck - I cannot even log out or tell what time it is. The
> panel is just blank.
> 
>    I was hoping that there would be a path to fixing this post updates
> so I tried to run apt-get update and that failed:
> 
> [root@Godzilla apt]# apt-get update
> apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.3.so: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> [root@Godzilla apt]#
> 
> I assumed I'd have to update apt itself but I see no pointers on how
> to do that on the Planet install pages. Am I missing something
> obvious?
> 
>    If someone could send along instructions on where I'm supposed to
> get an apt RPM & appropriate config files I would greatly appreciate
> it.

This should get the new apt:
rpm -Uvh
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/rpms/apt-0.5.15cnc6-4.rhfc4.ccrma.i386.rpm

There are some old tips here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg06636.html
maybe the:
    yum groupupdate "GNOME Desktop Environment"
will help in your case?
and here as well:
http://www.linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc2-fc3-update-with-yum.txt

-- Fernando