Synaptic Package Manager Manual V0.1

Sebastian Heinlein

This manual describes version 0.46 of Synaptic Package Manager.

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This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU Public license as published by the Free Software; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) later version. A copy of this license can be found in , or in the file included with the source code of this program.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Main Window
Overview
Toolbar
Category Selector
Package List
Package Properties
Managing Packages
To Browse the List of Known Packages (FIXME)
To Find and Browse Packages (FIXME)
To Install Packages
To Remove Packages
To Upgrade Packages
To Upgrade the Whole System
To Apply Marked Changes
To Unmark Changes
To Configure Packages
To View Documentation for Packages
To Fix Broken Packages
Repositories
To Refresh the List of Known Packages
To Edit, Add or Remove Repositories
To Add Repositories From CD-ROM
Filters
To Apply Filters
To Edit or Create Filters
Preferences
General
Layout
Column Order and Colours
Temporary Files
Network
Expert
Known Bugs and Limitations
Keyboard Shortcuts
About Synaptic Package Manager
A. GNU General Public License
Preamble
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
Section 0
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
NO WARRANTY Section 11
Section 12
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

Introduction

The Synaptic Package Manager is a graphical frontend to the apt package management system. It allows you to perform all actions of the command line tool apt-get in a graphical environment.

The software on your system is organizied in so called packages. The Synaptic Package Manager enables you to install, remove or upgrade software packages. A detailed list of the most important features can be found below.

Note

The modifications are not appled instantly. This allows you to mark several modifications and apply them at once.

Synaptic Package Manager provides the following features:

  • Install, remove, configure, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages.

  • Upgrade your whole system.

  • Manage package repositories.

  • Search list of known packages by name, description...

  • Filter list of shown packages by status, section, property and tag.

  • Arrange list of shown packages by initial letter, status or tag.

  • Displays all available online documentation related to a package.

Note

Root rights are required to apply changes in the package system.

You can start Synaptic Package Manager in the following ways:

GNOME Applications menu

Choose System Tools->Synaptic Package Manager.

KDE menu

Choose Settings->Extra->Synaptic Package Manager.

Command line

To start Synaptic Package Manager from a command line type the following , then press Return:

synaptic

Caution

You can render your system unusable.

Synaptic allows you to perform changes on the core of your system.

Always use Synaptic Package Manager with care.