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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