How to install APT-GET or YUM or RPM or something similar on Linpus?
January 17, 2019 at 5:28 am
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2019 at 5:48 am by FlatAssembler.)
Hey, guys!
So, I am somewhat in trouble. I've just bought a new Acer Nitro laptop. It comes with Linpus Linux (I expected it to come with a GUI version, but apparently it doesn't).
So, the WLAN drivers apparently aren't working ("ifconfig" doesn't detect them). I've managed to connect it to the Internet using the LAN cable, and "wget" works. However, if I try to use "apt-get" or "yum" or "rpm" or "svn" or "git" or, as far as I am aware of, anything else that's normally used in installing Linux programs, I get "command not found". It's not that I simply don't have privileges to run those tools, "whoami" command prints "root". They aren't present either anywhere in "$PATH" nor in "/sbin/" nor in "/usr/sbin/".
The "tar" also appears not to support the "J" option (to open "xz" files). "fdisk -l" also doesn't appear to be able to detect my USB stick.
I've tried to install APT-GET by downloading a ".sh" script via WGET that allegedly does that. However, that script (apart from taking over an hour to download) appears to rely on JRE to be pre-installed, which it isn't. I've tried to install Java for Linux. If I try to install the 64-bit version of Java for Linux using "wget", I get the "can't execute a binary file" error (which is surprising to me, since that laptop has 8 GB RAM, so of course it has to come with a 64-bit Linux pre-installed, right?). If I try to install the 32-bit version, I get some unintelligible error messages about how there is some "dl error" (whatever that meant) and how it can't handle some TLS requests because of that (makes no sense to me whatsoever). GCC or CLANG, of course, also aren't available, not even "as" or "ld" is. 32-bit FlatAssembler, for example, appears to work, but it's of little use to me now.
I believe I would be able to install the drivers I need and the GUI if I manage to get APT-GET (or something similar) to work. Any idea how?
I've planned to install Windows XP on that laptop in case the pre-installed operating system doesn't work well, because I happen to have a copy of Windows XP on a CD and a USB CD-ROM drive (which I also use for my 5-year-old MacAir). However, if I try to install Windows XP on that laptop, I get a BSOD when I try to format the hard-drive, and Windows XP can't be installed on a Linux file system.
So, I am somewhat in trouble. I've just bought a new Acer Nitro laptop. It comes with Linpus Linux (I expected it to come with a GUI version, but apparently it doesn't).
So, the WLAN drivers apparently aren't working ("ifconfig" doesn't detect them). I've managed to connect it to the Internet using the LAN cable, and "wget" works. However, if I try to use "apt-get" or "yum" or "rpm" or "svn" or "git" or, as far as I am aware of, anything else that's normally used in installing Linux programs, I get "command not found". It's not that I simply don't have privileges to run those tools, "whoami" command prints "root". They aren't present either anywhere in "$PATH" nor in "/sbin/" nor in "/usr/sbin/".
The "tar" also appears not to support the "J" option (to open "xz" files). "fdisk -l" also doesn't appear to be able to detect my USB stick.
I've tried to install APT-GET by downloading a ".sh" script via WGET that allegedly does that. However, that script (apart from taking over an hour to download) appears to rely on JRE to be pre-installed, which it isn't. I've tried to install Java for Linux. If I try to install the 64-bit version of Java for Linux using "wget", I get the "can't execute a binary file" error (which is surprising to me, since that laptop has 8 GB RAM, so of course it has to come with a 64-bit Linux pre-installed, right?). If I try to install the 32-bit version, I get some unintelligible error messages about how there is some "dl error" (whatever that meant) and how it can't handle some TLS requests because of that (makes no sense to me whatsoever). GCC or CLANG, of course, also aren't available, not even "as" or "ld" is. 32-bit FlatAssembler, for example, appears to work, but it's of little use to me now.
I believe I would be able to install the drivers I need and the GUI if I manage to get APT-GET (or something similar) to work. Any idea how?
I've planned to install Windows XP on that laptop in case the pre-installed operating system doesn't work well, because I happen to have a copy of Windows XP on a CD and a USB CD-ROM drive (which I also use for my 5-year-old MacAir). However, if I try to install Windows XP on that laptop, I get a BSOD when I try to format the hard-drive, and Windows XP can't be installed on a Linux file system.
