Re: Synaptic

From	pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mint
Subject	Re: Synaptic
Date	2025-01-23 16:59 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:40:53 -0800
Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:

> pinnerite wrote:
> > I arived at Mint from Mageia.
> > Mageia's application installation program is very user-friendly.
> > 
> > Synaptic by contrast is a bit ... user-hostile.
> > 
> > Remarks on the Sharing-folders thread seem to suggest it is no longer installed by default.
> > If not, what is replacing it?
> 
> Your qx inspired me to visit the Mageia wiki which I found very 
> impressive.  Kudos to them for that.
> 
> Synaptic is /still/ installed by default in LM and it is my favorite 
> package manager.
> 
> There is an 'attitude' among some that users don't like synaptic much, 
> so Software Manager under the name mintinstall is also installed in LM 
> by default.  I prefer software managers 'like' synaptic over managers 
> like mintinstall, but maybe more people are like you than like me :-)
> 
> Mageia's wiki has quite a lot of coverage of its various methods of 
> package management; and its packages are .rpm.
> 
> Depending on circumstances, sometimes I just use apt from the command line.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Easter

Although I became increasingly proficient with .rpm, I really took
to .deb very quickly but from the command line. I feel that synaptic
feelsa more like a work-in-progress.

Search for an application and it throughs in everything and the kitchen
sink. 

Alan                                    


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