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Linux: The Beginners Guide
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Synaptic Package Manager
Synaptic is a graphical package management program. It can be used for many things, listed below; it is also an alternative to the command line apt-get.
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.
- Built-in terminal emulator for the package manager.
How to access Synaptic Package Manager:
- Click System – Administration – Synaptic Package Manager
- You will be prompted for an administrative password
- And that’s all, you have now opened Synaptic Package Manager
