On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 23:10, Charles Howse wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:37 pm, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > For the sake of consistency I'd like to use Synaptic to do all my package > > > management. > > > > > > I've placed > > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/ > > >Fedora/RPMS/ into the list of repositories. > > > > > > When I click "Update list", I get the following error: > > > Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones > > > used instead. > > > It's never done that before. > > > > > > Do I have the right URL? > > > > No. The main fedora repository isn't apt-enabled (and thus wont work > > with synaptic either). The only apt-enabled development tree I'm aware > > of is at freshrpms, try this instead: > > -- > > URI: http://ayo.freshrpms.net > > Distribution: fedora/linux/development/i386 > > Section(s): core > > Ok, Panu, thanks for that tip. > I did that, updated the list, and that worked fine, however when I chose to > override the version of kde-base (from 3.1.4 to 3.1.95), Synaptic failed to > download all the packages. > > I guess I could wait a while and try again. Yep, the repository seems badly out of sync at the moment :( Not much one can do except wait a bit and try later again. > > You didn't say whether you use Synaptic or not, I'm wondering if the default > settings are sufficient for what I want to do? I occasionally use Synaptic for certain types of tasks where GUI really makes things easier but for most part I just use apt-get, simply out of preferring command line in general. No reason you couldn't use synaptic with out-of-the-box settings for all your package management tasks. - Panu -
