[TriLUG] apt failure

[Scott Lundgren]

I'm trying to use apt when installing packages from the JPackage Project
(java software neatly packaged into RPM format) into my RH 8 box but I'm
having problems with packages not being found.

Following their documentation: http://www.jpackage.org/repos.php, I added
the following to apt's sources.list

[root at sl scottl]# less /etc/apt/sources.list
# Red Hat Linux 8.0
rpm     http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ redhat/8.0/i386 os updates freshrpms
rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ redhat/8.0/i386 os updates freshrpms
rpm     [JPackage] http://us.dl.sf.net/jpackage/direct_download/ 1.5/generic
free
rpm-src [JPackage] http://us.dl.sf.net/jpackage/direct_download/ 1.5/generic
free non-free
rpm     [JPackage] http://us.dl.sf.net/jpackage/direct_download/
1.5/redhat-8.0 free
rpm-src [JPackage] http://us.dl.sf.net/jpackage/direct_download/
1.5/redhat-8.0 free

[root at sl scottl]# apt-get install ant
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package ant

Running Synaptic's "update list" reports failure on those JPackage URL's
with the message: "Release files for some repositories could not be
retrieved or authenticated. Such repositories are being ignored. Some index
files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead."

My guess is that there is some SourceForge URL redirection causing the
failure so I tried substituting
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jpackage/direct_download/ and
http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jpackage/direct_download/ to no
avail.
Any ideas on how sources.list should be set up?

- SL