gLite

APT Repository for gLite

Overview

This APT repository is provided to ease the installation of the gLite packages on system supporting the RPMS package format. The following source specification can be used to configure your local apt cache:

rpm http://glitesoft.cern.ch/EGEE/gLite/APT/R3.0/ rhel30 externals Release3.0 updates

Getting started

Create a file (for example glite-rhel30.list) in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory containing the source specification string and run

apt-get update

To install APT and configure it for gLite, use the following steps:

rpm -ivh http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc30X/i386/SL/RPMS/apt-0.5.15cnc6-8.SL.cern.i386.rpm
wget http://glitesoft.cern.ch/EGEE/gLite/APT/R3.0//rhel30/glite-rhel30.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/glite-rhel30.list
apt-get update
apt-get install <package-name>

Repository content

The RPMS contained in this repository are divided in the following directories:

Release3.0	(base gLite 3.0 packages)
externals		(external packages required to install gLite 3.0)
updates		(updated packages released after the base packages)