Problem finding the synaptic stuff on rpmfind.net?

[Douglas Denholm]

The synaptic graphical front end sounds great but when I tried going to the
links you gave below (at rpmfind.net) I could not find them. Do they work
for you? Maybe they have moved elsewhere although I poked around a bit on
the site without finding them.

--Doug



> Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 07:27:37 -0500
> From: Clinton MacDonald <clint.macdonald@sbcglobal.net>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Getting descriptions of the yum-able packages...
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> Mr. Denholm:
> 
> Douglas Denholm wrote:
>> Now I have some idea of what *some* of them are for but there are dozens
>> (and dozens!) where I have no idea what they are for. And the folks
>> developing these packages seem to enjoy coming up with names that have
>> no discernable connection to what their purpose ;).
> 
> Isn't that the truth! (Take "yum," for example -- doesn't that just
> scream "update and installation utility"? NOT!)
> 
>> Is there some place where I can find descriptions of all these packages?
> 
> The traditional method is to examine the list and Google for
> likely-looking package names. That works about 50% of the time. For the
> other 50%, that's what this mailing list is for. :-)
> 
> However, there is a lovely alternative to yum for installing packages.
> Install the "apt-get" package management system, then install the
> Synaptic graphical front end:
> 
> <http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/freshrpms/ayo/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/RPMS.freshrpms/s
> ynaptic-0.42-1.fr.ppc.html>
> 
> See a previous post by Glenn Greenfield for more explanation:
> 
> <http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-newbie/2003-September
> /004559.html>
> 
> Synaptic has a very nice GUI, includes a search utility, and gives
> useful descriptions of all listed packages. I prefer it to yum for all
> but the most basic updates.