Package Manager Frontend Synaptic
Elliott Wilcoxon
elliott at wilcoxon.org
Wed Nov 19 17:40:15 UTC 2003
Great, you send the probable fix to my problem as I send an email asking
about it -.-; I'll try that to see if it fixes my synaptic stopping
problems. Thanks!
Elliott Wilcoxon
Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> 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!
>
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