Ok guys, I have Fedora loaded back on here. Now I want to be able to update it using synaptic which I used last week. When I download the Synaptic update thing it tells me it needs apt-get too ...?

HMMMmmm, I an't remember if I had that before or not.

All mu google searchs on synaptic takes me to a site where I can download it. Unfortunatly there's like piss poor instructions oon what to do with it.

anyone have any better luck on some other sites with installation instructions and so on and so forth.

Last week when I installed it there was a place that had really great instruction on what to do.

synaptic is the apt-get frontend, right?. apt-get is to install rpms (but you'll probably know).
as FC3 doesn't ship with apt, you'll have to get it elsewhere...

you could do the following:
yum will probably be available to you (try 'rpm -q yum')

go to your /etc/yum.repos.d directory and edit 'dag.repo' with your favourite editor

put in:
now try 'yum install synaptic' and it will install synaptic and it's dependancy apt.

you COULD do it a harder way by downloading tar.gz files or searching for the rpms, but is the easiest way..

But.. as yum comes standard with FC3 as the installation tool, you could consider using that tool. With the above repository, a package called 'yumi' is available as the graphical front-end for yum.

Hope tihs helps...

Well look at that.. yumi isn't default avail for fc3 through the above mentioned repository..

I used it once to test it on FC2, worked fine... though I prefer text oriented tools' so yum suffices.

You could look on the net for the yumi if you decide to give that a try..

I actually used yum to update it and it went fine, no problems at all.

I think I'll just stick with that for awhile and see how I like it.

It does seem easy enough tho!

Thanks guys.

Now to figure out how to install this darn java crap.

yum install synaptic worked great!!!!

I'm all updated and everything. Woo HOo!
Thanks guys