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April 24, 2004

APT and Synaptic for Fedora Core 2 Test 2

I've felt a bit lost over the past couple of weeks without APT and Synaptic. While Mandrake's RPM update tool, URPMI, is a nice piece of software, I honestly feel that APT and Synaptic are just way out of its league.

Since I installed Fedora Core 2 Test 2, which has been awesome might I add, I've been looking for a compatable version of APT and Synaptic. I found it today at FreshRPMS.net. Here's the link:

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/2/

Now, I found that in order to install APT and Synaptic, you need to actually download all of the packages from the FreshRPMs site. I tried initially to download just APT and install Synaptic from the terminal, but it gave me all kinds of dependancy issues. Instead, I installed Synaptic from the RPMs manually, and everything worked just fine. As a matter of fact, I just finished with some software updates that I've been wanting to do for a while now.

Man, I've missed Synaptic.

Posted by ed at 09:58 PM | Comments (0)

Another Week From Hell Is Over

I knew this week would be a huge challenge for the IT department, but there were things that I just didn't anticipate.

The news printers not working properly: This one has been one of the biggest annoyances thus far. I can't figure for the life of me why these damn newsroom script printers aren't printing properly. For some reason, they keep printing scripts out of order. For example, it would print pages 1-8, 10, 9, 11-17, 19, 18, 20-25. Now why it's doing this, I'm just not too sure. I've been e-mailing and calling Lexmark since Tuesday trying to figure out a solution, but even they seem to be stumped by this problem. Come Monday, I'm going to call them back and have them send down someone to get this thing working properly.

At least I got Optraforms Director to stop crashing.

Posted by ed at 02:11 PM | Comments (0)