Synaptic with Fedora?

Clint Mendola cmendola at nationalbackgrounddata.net
Fri May 7 20:41:33 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 16:22, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Can one use synaptic with Fedora-1?
> The synaptic (& apt) docs seem very Debian oriented.
> Eg the example sources.list starts all lines with "deb".
> Is that really necessary?
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
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> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

http://apt.freshrpms.net/
This page has links to apt for lots of distros.  Fedora is at the top of
the list, yay!  Anyway, once you get apt installed run
"apt-get update && apt-get install synaptic."
What's really cool is that synaptic automatically shows up on the gnome
panel menu under "System Tools"





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