FC-2 Add/Remove Applications rant ...

[Andre Costa]

On Sun, 30 May 2004 17:18:03 -0400
"Shaun T. Erickson" <ste at smxy.org> wrote:

> Davy Brion wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 22:42, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> > 
> >>Is there something else, graphical, that I can use to manage my
> >rpms, >both installed and uninstalled, that's not so brain-dead?
> > 
> > 
> > i haven't used it myself yet, but i've heard a lot of good things
> > about Synaptic with apt.
> 
> Ok. I installed apt, then ran the command to select the mirrors. The I
> 
> ran apt-get install synaptic as described on the fedora wiki. I get:
> 
> [root at dhcppc5 root]# apt-get install synaptic
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package synaptic
> [root at dhcppc5 root]#
> 
> I must have done something wrong. Suggestions?

You did an 'apt-get update' before trying to install, right?

Assuming you did, your repositories might still be misconfigured or
missing. Try the'apt-cache policy' command to see if synaptic is found.
eg. here I have:

~ apt-cache policy synaptic
synaptic:
  Installed: 0.48.2-13.rhfc1.at
  Candidate: 0.48.2-13.rhfc1.at
  Version Table:
 *** 0.48.2-13.rhfc1.at 0
        100 RPM Database
     0.48.2-2.rhfc1.dag 0
        500 http://apt.sw.be redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag pkglist
     0.48.2-1.1.fc1.fr 0
        500 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms
pkglist     0:0.48.2-0.fdr.0.1 0
        500 ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org fedora/1/stable pkglist
     0:0.48.1-0.fdr.3.1 0
        500 http://download.fedora.us fedora/fedora/1/i386/stable
pkglist     0.47-0.rhfc1.dag 0
        500 http://apt.sw.be redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag pkglist

As you can see from the above output, different synaptic versions could
be found on 5 different repos.

Suggestion: if you install apt-get from Dag Wieers' repo, it comes with
many useful repos pre-configured, each on its own .list config file on
/etc/apt/sources.list.d dir.

HTH

Andre

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Andre Oliveira da Costa