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Re: Synaptic

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Mike Easter wrote:
> This section describes the 'limitation' induced:
> 
>> Linux Mint transitioned to Aptkit and Captain:
>>
>> Aptkit replaces aptdaemon, providing a streamlined library for
>> package management operations with updated functionality. Captain
>> unifies the features of GDebi and apturl into a single, easy-to-use
>> utility. All the tools previously reliant on aptdaemon, synaptic or
>> apturl now use these replacements.
> 
> Notice that neither Aptkit nor Captain is said to actually replace 
> synaptic.
> 
> I'll have to take a look at all that to see how it suits me.

What I see in default LM 22.1 in available programs is mintinstall as 
Software Manager which appears to be somewhat improved, but 
unsatisfactory to me compared to Synaptic.  Apparently Aptkit and 
Captain are 'secret' tools, no man entry for either, no command line 
action for sudo aptkit or sudo captain.

So, as far as I'm concerned, the default LM 22.1 is deficient in my kind 
of package manager and needs an immediate installation of the synaptic 
from the repo/s, which incidentally has never reached version 1 at 
0.91.3build 4 Its package is 0.7 meg and it needs 3.2 meg diskspace.

mintinstall calls Captain a system package (like synaptic) and describes 
it as a collection of apt tools, like the release notes.  It is not 
removable.  Locate finds a number of captain files and a binary.

Locate finds a LOT more aptkit files, which apparently operates as a 
python app.  mintinstall has very little to say about it as a 
description, only 'transaction based package manager'.

It seems to me that there isn't much negative about synaptic except the 
negative generalities in the LM 22.1 release notes; and that it is still 
being dev/d for Ub and Deb distro/s.  Since I'm not a dev, I don't know 
what is going on about the patches or the problems getting things to 
work properly in such as Wayland or variations of DEs.


-- 
Mike Easter

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