I love synaptic. I don't understand why FC ships without it. It might have a few issues with dependencies, but so does rpm ! I think synaptic is the best app installer available anywhere, with yum a close second. I had to install Windows software a few weeks back and I almost gagged at how bad it was. On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:31 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > I think synaptic (GUI RPM package manager) is the greatest! Since FC1, > I've like it. You can see how much space packages take, you can add ones > you don't have already and did not know about by browsing the list, you > can find upgrades on various servers. > > But I don't hear any talk about it in here. Instead, you like that > boring old yum that has no pointy-clicky pizzazz and makes my head hurt > with syntax and fancy footwork. Synaptic used to be front-and-center in > the FC1 support web sites, but now it disappears from them. Why? > > For example, the "Fedora Core 2 Tips and Tricks" page, which I have > found helpful, has dropped reference to synaptic > > http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc2-tips.php > > up2date has very few of the synaptic features, you know. up2date doesn't > list all available packages, doesn't let you see how many megs each one > takes after installation. Doesn't help you delete packages and figure > out dependencies. > > The only problem I have with synaptic is figuring how to change my > configuration to point at FC tests and upgrades. So if you guys would > use synaptic too, then maybe you would post info on how I should > configure my repository settings so I can keep up with FC testing. > > ?? > > -- > Paul E. Johnson email: pauljohn@xxxxxx > Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn > 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 > University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 > Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700 > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc