Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Liam Proven]

On 9 October 2017 at 14:36, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't use synaptic but I'm curious about this. Is synaptic being
> called deprecated because it's not compatible with wayland?

No. Works fine.

> Will it
> never be wayland-compatible?

See above.


> Does this mean that, with wayland, gtk
> DEs will use packagekit and qt DEs will use muon? Can these two use
> apt as a backend?

Don't know.

Synaptic is technical, for expert users. It allows individual
libraries and so on to be manipulated, whereas tools like GNOME
Software and the old Ubuntu Software Centre are intended for
non-technical users.

Synaptic hasn't been in the default Ubuntu install for _years_.

But I still like it and use it. I really miss it when using non-APT
distros such as Fedora and SUSE, which have less capable package
management GUIs.

Fedora offers Yumex which us a bit of a joke. SUSE's Yast is rich and
capable, but not as flexible -- for instance, you can't select >1
package at a time to install/remove/upgrade/whatever. :-(



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