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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