[OT][was] sudo, why not su? - Why keep Synaptic

Tommy Trussell tommy.trussell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 19:04:21 UTC 2005


On 8/10/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> J.Markoll wrote:
> > As you configure Synaptic to display
> > in a column which repository each package comes from, you have the
> > complete information always at hand.
> 
> Nobody has _yet_ explained to me how to do that.  So I gave up.

Here are the instructions, assuming English / USA locale etc.:

Open Synaptic, 

go to Settings --> Preferences

Click the Columns and Fonts tab

Check the Section and/or Component checkboxes

(I don't understand what "section" and "component" mean in this case,
though I am guessing the authors of Synaptic wanted it to be
independent of Debian terminology.)

On my setup, the Section column displays both the repository AND the
category the package is a part of, EXCEPT for items in the main
repository, where it just shows the category.

I strongly suspect the exact contents of those columns may depend on
exactly how you configured the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list




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