Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by bobbybobbertson, Sep 10, 2003.
I put apt-get on my RH9 server that has cpanel. I love apt-get, but unfortunately it seems to be a little too smart/unconfigurable.
The problem is that cpanel installs almost everything with RPM's except for the Apache web server. Therfore apt-get thinks a bunch of packages are missing dependancies on httpd because it doesn't see an rpm for apache.
Does anyone know how to "fool" apt-get into believeing that apache is really installed?
Can you describe what the ensurerpm one does?
It said the package wasn't found. Do you have to use a special name (possibly with version numbers)?
Or do I have to wget the rpm first and then install it with this script?
woops. nevermind. netcat is named "nc".
I have this same problem... and I'd much more prefer to use apt-get and RPM list from WHM. Anything I can do??
Because apt requires that the package database be consistent, you don't really have a choice.
Because cpanel install/removes some packages regardless of dependencies(instead of properly removing those depending packages, as is proper) there is no real solution using apt.
You could switch to yum, which is almost as good as apt, supported by most of the same repositories, but doesn't perform the incompatble-with-cpanel's-broken-methods check for proper dependencies.
The future is now, you have to be compatible with the bugs, you can't fix them.