On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:12, Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote: > Thomas wrote: > > > Hello again, > > > > I found a good-looking GUI package manager frontend at > > http://freshrpms.net/ > > The name of the Frontend is Synaptic. It is based on the rpm version > > of apt-get, which is also available at freshrpms. > > Apt-get works well, sadly Synaptic freezes very ofthen. > > > > Synapic is available for Redhat for quite a while, i wonder if someone > > could get it to work stable? > > > > I tried synaptic, very resource hungry, I think it was the cause of my > rpmdb corrupting, > due to dying in the middle of things, if you lack the ram etc to run it > well, you'd be > better of giving it a miss You guys might be having trouble with what I found: unlike all other X programs, Synaptic doesn't like running in the background. It's not really 'freezing', it's stopping. Odd- I don't know why it would, but it does: synaptic & <-- backgrounds it synaptic <-- doesn't. Try it from an xterm sometime and when it stops, press return. You'll see something like "synaptic: stopped [3024]" or similar. You can "fg %1" and it'll kick it in the butt again and probably finish. I haven't used the last couple of versions, but many before it had this problem...I just run it from an xterm and don't background it. It's a nice project; it doesn't limit me to searching for RPMs but those silly categories-only. You can look at it alphabetically, etc. Nice program! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian FahrlÃnder Researcher, Conservative, and Technomad Evansville, IN http://Fahrlander.net ICQ 5119262 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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