Synaptic

[girard henri]

Le 08/05/2013 21:30, Peter Hillier-Brook a écrit :
> I recently performed  a clean install of Kubuntu 13.04 on a new hard 
> disk and, as is my wont I rapidly installed Synaptic in preference to 
> any of the (k)ubuntu update managers. The first thing I noticed is 
> that the user interface has changed significantly from the version on 
> a 13.04 upgrade from earlier releases, rendering it seriously less 
> usable. In particular there is no longer an option to choose 
> repositories: in my case I wanted "Partner" to get hold of the Wine 
> beta release.
>
> What's going on? Is this a plot to force the use of update managers 
> rather than Synaptic? It doesn't work as it's not too onerous to 
> directly edit /etc/apt/sources.list, but not everyone will want to do 
> that.
>
> Incidentally, on the topic of sources.list the man pages say that 
> options between square brackets are text pairs of the form of 
> option=value. This is definitely not the case with the various 
> flavours of Ubuntu, where undefined control characters appear to be 
> used. Comments on this would also be welcome.
>
> Peter HB
>



leaving synaptic  is like killing deb