Updating - installing apt/synaptic

[Panu Matilainen]

On 01/04/2013 07:40 AM, James Freer wrote:
> I'm new to Fedora having used xubuntu for 5 years. I installed the F17
> xfce last night and found there were over 500 updates and this seemed to
> take much longer than xubuntu. Does rpm take longer than deb distros for
> updating. It would seem to me that yum is a more complex app and thus
> could take longer.
>
> I did a google last night and noticed that some folk install
> apt/synaptic for package management - has anyone done that? any problems
> (because i'm about to try!).

The rpm port of apt (and synaptic) you see in Fedora is for all 
practical purposes dead and doesn't really even work these days. Dont 
bother with them, learn yum & related tools instead if you intend to 
stick with Fedora.

	- Panu -