Synaptic with Fedora?

Wolfgang wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Sun May 9 12:05:13 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 21:36, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Wolfgang wrote:
> 
> >> The RPM there is the one I downloaded (from http://rpmfind.net/).
> 
> > If you downloaded it from http://yarrow.freshrpms.net/ it would have
> > been automatically configured. So now you have to go to this site to get
> > the settings and configure it manually.
> 
> Are you saying that if you download the same RPM from different sites
> then it may install in a different way?
> 
> (The RPM in both places is synaptic-0.48.2-1.1.fc1.fr.i386.rpm .)
> 
> Incidentally, I tried an entry in sources.list which I found
> in the fedora-list archives (but with a local URL) namely
> rpm http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/
> but synaptic complains that this line is not in proper format.
> 
> Could anyone who is running synaptic successfully under Fedora-1
> please send me, or post, their sources.list .
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
[snip]

No, I'm saying that I downloaded APT from freshrpms and I didn't have to
configure their repository. Here is a copy of one of their lists. Just
remove the # from the fedora entry to use it.

Wolf

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