Install

This repository can be used in several ways, either you browse through the directories searching for the bits you need, or you can use one of the available package manager tools.

In any case you may first want to import ATrpms’ signing key:

rpm --import http://packages.atrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms

For older rpm versions this may fail, but you can use the following two step approach:

wget http://packages.atrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms

When you have found the rpms you need and want to install them, you have several choices.

• The hard way: Download manually the rpms you need and install them with rpm -Uhv.
  This is O.K., if you only want to install a couple of packages.

  But this method doesn’t scale well. If you want to install packages with multiple dependencies or want to keep your system up to date, you are better of with a package manager.

• The easy way: Use a package manager like smart and/or apt and/or yum. This will ease your life with staying up to date with Red Hat erratas, as well as installing rpms from 3rd party packagers like atrpms, freshrpms, dag, dries, ccrma and several others.
  • There are distribution specific packages with configuration files for various package managers. Install the matching package and use the package manager henceforth.
  • If you don’t want to install the above package for any reasons, please follow these instructions (examples are for Fedora 14 on i386, modify accordingly for other distributions, for example replace f14-i386 with sl6-x86_64 for Scientific Linux 6 for AMD64):
    • smart: Make sure the following lines are included in /etc/smart/channels/smart.channel:

      #
      # atrpms
      # Fedora 14 - i386 - ATrpms
      #
      [atrpms]
      name=Fedora 14 - i386 - ATrpms
      baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f14-i386/atrpms/stable
      type=rpm-md
      

    • apt: Make sure the following lines are included in /etc/apt/sources.list:

      #
      # atrpms
      # Fedora 14 - i386 - ATrpms
      #
      repomd http://dl.atrpms.net f14-i386/atrpms/stable
      

    • yum: Make sure the following lines are included in /etc/yum.conf:

      [atrpms]
      name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
      baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
      gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
      gpgcheck=1

    You can then retrieve further rpms with smart, apt-get, yum or synaptic.

    Note that there are yet another two sections named ‘testing’ and ‘bleeding’ which are not automatically enabled in the default configuration (this is on purpose).

  Now that your system is apt enabled, you will have to run

  apt-get update

  to freshen the lists of available packages, and

  apt-get dist-upgrade

  to update you system to the newest packages. Use for example

  apt-get install synaptic

  to install synaptic (a graphical user interface for apt-get) etc.