Hello everyone

I am trying to add the freshrpms repository to synaptic but it keeps adding 'pkglist' to the string specifying the web address. Consequently there is an 404 error because the http://...freshrpms web address .../pkglist doesn't exist

I looked in Synaptic help, but it didn't really explain.

With the web address for freshhrpms, I notice that packages exist in several places. I am using the following in the repositories dialog box:

URI http://ayo.freshrpms.net/

Distibution: fedora/linux/5/i386/freshrpms/RPMS/

Sections:


At the moment, I am using the rpm type.

I notice that fedora repositories use the type repomd - does any one know what this means?

Also is the rpmdir type for use with local files? - it doesn't seem to work with a web address.

Is there any way around this or I am I missing something?

I am quite happy using apt or yum from the command line, but it would be nice to use the GUI version.

I only use the command line, so this may be bum dope. Synaptic is the GUI for APT which is not used by Fedora. I believe APT-RPM is the APT package GUI for RPM-based distros like Fedora.

I forgot to mention that synaptic worked brilliantly under FC3 !!

Any way I will have ago at installing apt-rpm

Thanks