Have just installed antiX to the hard drive and i am very impressed.

Could someone tell me where i can locate the Synaptic Package Manager so i can check for updates please. Also, how do i configure the music player to play my CD's please.

Big thanks

Welcome to antiX amos.

AS you posred this is the antiX-M8-Intifada section, I'll presume you are using that version. (It is a bit old though)
Type inxi -F in a terminal and paste the result here so we can see your hardware specs and which antiX version ou are using.

Synaptic is in the antiX control centre -System-Manage Packages.
To play audio cds, put it in the cd player, open xmms (music player), click on left tab at top to open a drop down menu, play location, /media/cdrom should be available, if not type it in.

Hello and thanks for the welcome anticapitalista. I know this is going to seem really stupid but i am a real linux noob so could you please tell me how i can find out the correct version of antiX i am using.
Many thanks

Fingers crossed i'm doing this correctly lol.

Amos@mepis1:~$ inxi -F
System: Host mepis1 Kernel 2.6.27-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8 Intifada! 12 February 2009
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (HT) cache 2048 KB flags (sse3 nx lm) bmips 6002.07
Clock Speeds: (1) 3000.035 MHz (2) 3000.035 MHz
Graphics: Card ATI RS400 [Radeon Xpress 200] X.Org 1.4.2 Res 1024x768
Audio: Card ATI IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.17
Network: Card Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too v: 0.9.28 at port e400
Disks: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (1.1% used) 1: /dev/sda ST3160212A 160.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 9.7G used: 1.5G (16%) ID:/home size: 137G used: 204M (1%) ID: swap:/dev/sda2 size: 1.05GB
Info: Processes 89 Uptime 3:58 Memory 61.2/438.8MB Client Shell inxi 1.0.1
Amos@mepis1:~$

Thanks for the help!

So far so good!

Beware of the updates though. There will be lots of them as the version you have installed is not the latest release. You might want to try the latest release, or even the test beta3. (though it is a beta, it is working very well).

If you want to keep the M8 version and are happy with what it has and want a stable version, it is better to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so updates will only be for security.

If i was to try the latest release would i have to download, burn another iso image and then re-install or is there another way? Sorry to be such a nuisance.

Yes, that would be the best way.

Since antiX-M8 was released there have been many changes and there might be problems with upgrading with the repos left as they are.