[apt4rpm-suse] Help! (E: Unable to determine a suitable system type)

[GuidoZ <ube...@gm...>]

Hello all. I'm hoping this is a common problem that will be easy to
fix. I'm mostly a Linux n00b, although I understand the basic ideas
and system. Very well learned in Windows however. =)

I recently (today) installed apt4rpm on SuSE 9.1 Personal. After a bit
of tinkering, it was working pretty good (minus some odd 404 errors
when trying to download the updates with "apt-get update"). I went
through and fixed the sources.list to add some other sources, as well
as other components (suser-rbos, kde3-stable, wine, usr-local-bin,
suse-projects). It worked ok with these as well, aside from the 404
errors I mentioned before. (I'll worry about those later - I thik I
saw the problem.)

My current delima is in the subject of this email. After doing some
software uninstalls through YaST (removed the games, added some
productivity tools), typing "apt-get update" simply returns the error:
"E: Unable to determine a suitable system type". I did a fair amount
of Goolge hunting, though not very much seems to be available.

The result that looks the most promising
(http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2003-June/004745.html
thread) didn't help much. The "solution"
(http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2003-June/004761.html)
doesn't make sense to me, likely because I'm not exactly sure what it
means. I know what a symlink is and how to make one (I believe), yet I
don't have the same situation this user did. (I didn't change a thing
security wise to break the original functionality.) I tried the
"strace -o /tmp/apt-config.trace apt-config dump" to see if I could
see the answer, but unfortnately it just returned the same error I'm
getting. (Another reason why I think this problem runs a bit deeper...
I suspect a missing config or lib.)

So that's my story. Anyone have any suggestions or need more info?
Thanks ever so much. =)

-- 
Peace. ~G