Synaptic Package Manager Manual V0.1 | ||
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When you start Synaptic Package Manager, the following window is displayed.
Table 1. Synaptic Package Manager Window Components
Component | Description |
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Menubar | Contains menus that you use to perform in Synaptic Package Manager. |
Toolbar | Provides global actions (update, upgrade and execute) and a package search field. |
Package list | Lists available packages. The list can be narrowed down using filters. |
Package details | Provides information about a selected package |
Statusbar | Displays global informations about the status of Synaptic Package Manager |
The toolbar provides access to global actions and a quick search for packages.
Query all package sources (repositories) and rebuild the list of known packages.
Queue all packages with a later version available than installed for upgrade.
Execute all queued changes.
Jump to the fist package in the list whose name matches the entry.
![]() | For detailed instructions on the quick search, see the Section called Finding Packages. |
The package list shows all known packages by default. You can apply filters to narrow down the list of shown packages, see the Section called Using Filters.
To arrange the packages you can choose the following modes from View menu:
Table 2. View Modes
View | Description |
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Flat list | List all packages non hierarchically. |
Alphabetic tree | Group the packages by their initial name letter. |
Section tree | Group the packages by their section, e.g. "admin", "base", "gnome", etc. |
Status tree | Group the packages by their status, e.g. "installed", "not installed", "obsolete" etc. |
Tag tree | Group the packages by their tag. Tags are keywords provided by third parity. Only Debian GNU/Linux with installed "debtag" supports this feature. |
The column order and the used colours can be changed in the preferences, see the Section called Column Order and Colours.
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