Using Synaptic to upgrade to KDE 3.1.95

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 23:10, Charles Howse wrote:
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> On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:37 pm, Panu Matilainen wrote:
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> > > 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 -