Re: synaptic for apt

[Frank Lipski <frank@franklipski.com>]

YES! Gary, I have been using synaptic with RH 8.  I love it, and have
had no problems with it. Shows all dependencies, description of rpm, and
is very easy to use.

Frank 

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 12:44, Gary wrote:
> Has anyone played with this yet.. a GUI for apt. Some are using it on RH.

> http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/synaptic.html
> 
> The following is taken, in part, from an email on the RH list.
> 
> _______________________
> 
> apt-get install synaptic
> 
> synaptic is a gui for installing and removing programs.
> 
> if you then run synaptic as root you can choose mplayer and totem and
> lots of other lovely stuff.
> 
> If you are running Red Hat 8, you may have noticed that samba browsing
> of the network is broken in konqueror and nautilus.
> 
> There are new kde packages that work very well available for download.
> 
> If you put the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list file and
> then run apt-get update ; synaptic  you will see a load of updates
> available.
> 
> rpm ftp://orca.st.usm.edu/ pub/apt/redhat/8.0/en/i386  os updates
> freshrpms mattrpms
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Gary
> 
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