Graham wrote: >However, whether its first design intention was for rpm or Debian >systems, the naming of Synaptic was because it was a front-end to APT. > > > Hi, Debian 2.1 included APT||. Debian 2.1 was released|| on 09 March, 1999. hope this helps. By the way this was one year after 2.0 :-) Regards, Paul O'Malley