Although it looks like I'm replying to myself, I just haven't gotten
Matthias' reply yet, although I can see it on the website (and I did
> > I did apt-get update, and it seemed to have gotten the new packages
> Hmmm, "it seems"? Check closer as this may be where the problem is
> > but doing things like "apt-get install synaptic" didn't work (neither
> > did other known packages, like apt-get install lame
> > root@canarsie:/var/cache/apt # apt-get install lame
> Could you double check what "apt-get update" does? And eventually post
> output if there are any errors or messages you don't understand.
OK, I did it again, and here's what I got:
Get:1 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms pkglist [51.8kB]
Get:2 http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms srclist [12.6kB]
root@canarsie:/tmp # apt-get install lame
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 29 10:49 gensrclist
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 29 10:49 genpkglist
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Sep 29 10:49 archives
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        49863 Oct  4 16:00 srcpkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       158131 Oct  4 16:00 pkgcache.bin
So, it looks like it worked, and the files are updated..  very strange.
Maybe something went wrong updating apt from my old version (as used
with rh7.2), and this one.  Lemme try totally uninstalling and
warning: /etc/apt/sources.list saved as /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmsave
root@canarsie:/ # rpm -ivh /tmp/apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr1.i386.rpm
warning: /tmp/apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
root@canarsie:/ # apt-get install synaptic
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