Synaptic Package Manager
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What is Synaptic?
Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.
Features
- Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages.
- Upgrade your whole system.
- Manage package repositories (sources.list).
- Find packages by name, description and several other attributes.
- Select packages by status, section, name or a custom filter.
- Sort packages by name, status, size or version.
- Browse all available online documentation related to a package.
- Download the latest changelog of a package.
- Lock packages to the current version.
- Force the installation of a specifc package version.
- Undo/Redo of selections.
- Built-in terminal emulator for the package manager.
- Debian only: Configure packages through the debconf system.
Screenshot
Installing Synaptic
There are two ways you can install Synaptic; you can install it from the CNR service and also through the command line tool apt-get.
- Installing via CNR.com
Search for synaptic and click on the little green running man "Install Now" button.
- Installing via Apt-Get
To install Synaptic using apt-get, simply open up the Konsole terminal, and type in:
sudo apt-get install synaptic
The terminal will then check the dependencies and ask you if you are sure you want to install this package. Simply enter a Y and it will automatically install Synaptic for you.
Support/Help
Linspire, Inc. provides support for the download and installation phases of 3rd
party products distributed via the CNR Warehouse.
If you experience any download or installation issues with this software, please
use the resources available to you at support.Linspire.com including:
- FAQs
- Community Forums, and
- Ask Linspire, Inc. Support
Post-install and usage questions and support on this product will need to be
addressed by the software Publisher / Developer, who determine their own support
policies and provide support at their discretion.
For more information and support for this software, please visit the project's
page at www.nongnu.org/synaptic/.
Other support alternatives you may wish to consider include (a) posting a
message on the Freespire Community Forums, (b) attempting to contact the
Publisher/Developer directly, or (c) searching the Internet for additional
assistance.
