I've been using apt, and synaptic since Fedora Core 1, and also with my Debian, and Debian based installs, but for the first time I have a problem that I can't resolve with synaptic on Fedora 9.
Both Fedora 8, and Fedora 9's servers were compromised a while back, and prior to that I'd had no problems using apt-get, or synaptic. The servers eventually came back on line, and both apt-get, and synaptic continue to work as before with Fedora 8, but with Fedora 9 I have a problem. Apt-get works ok, but synaptic, when trying to install packages, downloads the packages, seems to verify the GPG keys, but then complains that there is an MD5 sum mismatch. As an example, trying to install Qsynth with synaptic, I get the MD5 sum mismatch, and the package is not installed. An apt-get install qsynth has no problems installing the package, so there is clearly no problem with the MD5 sums. Then I do an apt-get remove qsynth, and try to re-install qsynth using synaptic. Again I get MD5 sum mismatches, and the package won't install. I've tried removing synaptic with an apt-get remove synaptic, then re-installing it, but it doesn't remove all the files that were installed when synaptic was initially installed, so that , for example,synaptic's history still shows up on the re-install. I was hoping to completely remove synaptic, and all files connected with it, then re-install it, like it had never been installed before, and hopefully resolve this problem with the MD5 sum mismatches when trying to install packages with synaptic. Any suggestions on how to procede would be very welcome. Nigel. _______________________________________________ Synaptic-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/synaptic-devel
