about installing packages

J.Markoll j.markoll at free.fr
Wed Aug 3 20:38:40 UTC 2005


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Derek Broughton a écrit :
| Derek Broughton wrote:
|>J.Markoll wrote:

|>>Derek Broughton a écrit :
|>>| - why do people seem to love synaptic?

|>>I use alternately Synaptic and apt-get install, show, apt-cache,
|>>apt-search...
|>>People love Synaptic because it is very well done, offers plenty ways to
|>>get information about packages, is very configurable, even with colours
|>>very pratictal to see what package comes from what repository and so on,

|>Ah-hah.  That wasn't available the last time I used it seriously (quite
|>some time ago).
I wouldn't bet.

| Well, I installed synaptic and all its baggage (I'm a kubuntu user, I
really
| didn't want all that useless gnome stuff :-)), but I'll be darned if I can
| figure out any way to get it to tell me what came from what repository.
You must configure it, with colours of your choice.
Louch Synaptic, Menu Categories/Preferences tab colours.

| For most packages it shows me a little ubuntu icon in the second column,
| and it doesn't show that for the ones I _know_ didn't come from
ubuntu, but
| it also doesn't seem to show it for any packages with multiple candidates.
That's de default configuration :)
Best greetings, J.Markoll.

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