newbie question about kynaptic
Francis G
francisg at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 14:24:19 UTC 2005
> Can I run the "kynaptic" GUI from a command line? I mean, is this a GUI for
> RPM or something?
Welcome to Ubuntu!
Close. Kynaptic -- like Synaptic -- is a GUI front-end for *apt* -- a powerful
package management system, mainly used on Debian-based distributions (such as
Ubuntu), but also used in others, such as Fedora. However, where the Fedora
repositories use RPMs, Debian-based systems use Debian packages (*.deb). They
are similar in many ways, but also slightly different.
So, the backend of Kynaptic is apt -- you can use it in the same way that you
do on Fedora, pretty much. apt-get install <packagename> will download and
install the .deb. For more information, see the man page or check out Google.
Regards,
Francis Giannaros.
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