synaptic!

[Robert Meyer]

--- David Mangani <dmangani at att.net> wrote:
> Asheville Joe wrote:
> 
> > Is there a version (and database) that works with Mandrake yet?  I 
> > tried to install a version, but ran into problems.  From what I 
> > understand, even if I did get it installed, it relies on a distrro 
> > dependent database that teel it what each package needs to work.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > David Mangani wrote:
> >
> >> Just wanted to share a wonderful experience with the group. I had 
> >> read about synaptic ( apt-get) and its ability to find files and 
> >> solve dependencies and install software easily, so I gave it a try. 
> >> I'm using Fedore Core 1 and decided to try to install mplayer ( 14 or 
> >> 15 dependencies ) and it worked flawlessly. It identified all 
> >> required files, downloaded and installed them all. It even added 
> >> mplayer to my sound/video menu! This is a great piece of software. 
> >> For any newbies here like me I can't recommend this enough. Makes 
> >> getting installing software a delight!
> >>
> >> My 2 Cents
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >
> Hi Joe,
> 
> I'm not sure about a mandrake specific version. I do believe your 
> correct however, the "version" I installed was specifically under the 
> "Fedora Core" d'load section.  It makes sense as it would need to be 
> aware of an entire RPM database to function properly. I know there was a 
> version previously for RH. As a RH user I never checked into its 
> availability on Mandrake.
>     On a side note, I sent for MDK 9.2 and tried to install it. Wow, I 
> had alot of trouble. In fact way to much trouble. I'm thinking the disks 
> I got were bad. All kinds of broken links to apps, sound was messed up ( 
> SB Live ) very common card. video card detected wrong.. Oh well. I know 
> MDK is known to be pretty good, so I guess I may have gotten a bad disk 
> set. The set I recieved were CD-R's. I have had trouble in the past with 
> SOME CD-R sets. Does MDK have a "media checker" routine like RH? I 
> didn't see one.

I suspect that you had problems with the CD set.  I have installed from my set
several times and everything seems to work OK.

Did you get them from MDK or download them?

You can run 'md5sum' on the disks and then check against their published sums
for the set.

Cheers!

Bob

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