Synaptic integration

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 13:26 +0000, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 21/12/13 21:41, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 17:38 +0000, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> >> Help, please. I installed Synaptic from the standard repository and
> >> I've  noticed many missing features
> >
> > Install all suggested and recommended packages too. In Synaptic right
> > click on the Synaptic package to get a menu with the suggested and
> > recommended packages.
> 
> That did the trick, thanks.

You're welcome!

> I'll now spend some time working out which packages were relevant (I
> installed everything) and tidying things up.

Likely that you only need the recommended packages and that you can
completely remove the suggested packages. You can set up Synaptic to
always install recommended packages too, by Synaptic's preferences.

> It's a pity that the scroll bar remains faulty, so that issue is 
> probably Ubuntu related, rather than anything else.

No, at least unlikely, but the GTK upstream seemingly is a band of
idiots. I'm writing from Xfce on Arch Linux, using Evolution. The
culprit for such issues most of the times, if not always, is GTK.