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Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

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Op Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:53:17 +0100 schreef <tomas@tuxteam.de>:

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> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:21:45AM +0100, Floris wrote:
>> Op Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:44:19 +0100 schreef OECT T  
>> <oect_1964@hotmail.com>:
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>> >I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the
>> >package is not marked with the Debian icon >indicating that the
>> >package is not supported.
>> >
>> On my system (Debian sid) aptitude has the Debian logo in synaptics.
>
> Folks, learn to use the web site. Just surf over to [1] and you can
> query the current package database. For example, entering "aptitude"
> into the form and choosing "any" as Distribution shows you what
> distributions carry aptitude as a package [2] (and which versions
> of said package are in each distrib).

Thanks for explaining how to use the internet /s

> For aptitude, it turns out that aptitude is in wheezy (aka 7, aka
> (currently) oldoldstable), jessie (aka 8, aka oldstable), stretch
> (aka 9, aka stable), buster (aka testing) and sid (aka unstable).
>
> Thus either the icon in Synaptics is wrong (check your package
> sources, check your update status) or whatever Synaptics is trying
> to tell you with this icon is not what you think it's telling you.

Maybe you could point the OP a way how to find out what is wrong?

> Personally, I've perceived Synaptics as pretty unpredictable, but
> I've never found out whether it's the program or it's me.

Synaptics is very useful for users who wants a GUI for apt or dpkg. But I  
agree with you when there is a dependency issue it isn't very useful.

> [1] https://packages.debian.org/
> [2]  
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=aptitude&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
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Aptitude package manager "package" OECT T <oect_1964@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-24 02:20 +0100
  Re: Aptitude package manager "package" john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-01-24 07:50 +0100
  Re: Aptitude package manager "package" Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2018-01-24 10:30 +0100
    Re: Aptitude package manager "package" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-01-24 11:00 +0100
      Re: Aptitude package manager "package" Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2018-01-24 11:10 +0100
        Re: Aptitude package manager "package" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-01-24 11:30 +0100
      Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-24 16:10 +0100
        Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-01-24 17:10 +0100
          Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package" Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-24 17:50 +0100
            Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-24 20:10 +0100
          Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package" Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-24 18:20 +0100
        Re: Packages web page, was Re: Aptitude package manager "package" Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-24 18:10 +0100
  Re: Aptitude package manager "package" Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-01-24 11:20 +0100
  Re: Aptitude package manager "package" Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-01-24 12:10 +0100
  Re: Aptitude package manager "package" Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-01-24 12:20 +0100
  Re: Aptitude package manager "package" davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-24 17:10 +0100

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