Synaptic is a popular graphical package manager for new as well as pro users for managing apps/software. It provides an easy UI with search filters for searching software and allows easy software installation. It also selects and installs dependencies automatically for selected packages. Also helps to solve issues like broken packages.
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sudo apt install synaptic
2. From Deb Package
Link to downloads https://pkgs.org/download/synaptic
Synaptic has a number of use case like :
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Some terms related to Synaptic package manager in Linux
DEB is short for Debian package format which is used to install packages in Debian based OS like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint. Anyone can download and install a package using a Deb package.
A source where package related code is hosted on. Let say I want to install a package, so first, I need to add that repository where software can be downloaded from. Repository or repo as short can be added by apt/synaptic, they can be public as well as private.
A package let say vlc requires many other video libraries for data processing and streaming. Sometimes there is a dependency that can not be found or installed. so a package is said to be broken. Another cause may be because an incompatible version of dependencies installed.
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This post was last modified on March 23, 2021 10:41 pm
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