Software installation on modern Ubuntu

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:32:34 +0300, Nrbrtx wrote:
>>OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that
>>anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use
>>a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that.  Obviously I am wrong.  
>lol :)
>
>In other words gnome-software is not a good alternative for
>software-center. It's a bad parody.
>
>So Synaptic bugs should be fixed.

Synaptic suffers from far too many issues since a very long time. I
recommend to use a combination of command line tools and your favourite
GUI web browser ;). To see into what packages software from upstream is
split https://tracker.debian.org/ is helpful. Helpful
is https://packages.ubuntu.com/ in combination with Google. Yes, if you
really need to search for something, the devil works better than more
ethical search engines. There are helpers such as auto-apt,
http://www.debiananwenderhandbuch.de/auto-apt.html so you might not to
search anything. Instead of running

  make

after searching the required packages, just running

  auto-apt make

might do the job without searching and installing packages.

Note, I'm more an Arch Linux user and lost a little bit track of Ubuntu
tools, but if I want to do something on Ubuntu, I'm not missing synaptic
when using command line and a web browser. It's vice versa, I would
miss command line and a web browser, when using synaptic again.