On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 22:39, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Matthew Miller 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? > > > > For rpm, you start them all with 'rpm'. But you'll need the rpm-enabled > > verions of the programs. > > Where do you get such a beast? > I got the Fedora-1 version from freshrpms (as an RPM). > > The man page for sources.list says > ============================================ > The format of each line is: type > uri args. The first item, type, determines the format for args. > ============================================ > Unfortunately, it never says what values "type" can take, > and the dozen or so examples all have type "deb". > > [How can a person writing a man-page use a term like "type" > without ever explaining what the possible types are?] > > However, I've copied the entries from my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources > to /etc/apt/sources.list edited so that there are just 2 items > in each line, the first being "rpm", ie > ============================================= > rpm http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ > rpm http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/ > #rpm http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386/ > ============================================= > > Assuming this is what one has to do, > I find it amazing that it is not stated clearly in the synaptic docs. > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > Download the APT & SYNAPTIC files from this site. And install. That's all, that's to it. The repository is setup automatically. http://yarrow.freshrpms.net/ Wolf
