On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:17:55PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sat, 12 Oct, 2019 at 12:53:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > What is the replacement for a graphical package manager since synaptic is > > deprecated? peferably something that can be run over an ssh -Y > > user@machine login. > > Synaptic is not deprecated in buster.
It's more complicated than that. It was actually removed from buster during the testing phase, and then reintroduced after being modified to give an error message when started under Wayland, instead of simply failing to do anything at all. It came really, super close to not being in buster at all. There was a huge discussion of it here, 6 months ago, when it was removed. Here's the starting point: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/04/msg00103.html People accustomed to using synaptic might want to begin considering alternative tools, because synaptic has been removed from buster. More info: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1037065/synaptic-removed-from-testing/ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/synaptic https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818366#55 https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/b7ylny/synaptic_no_longer_in_buster_should_i_start/ Also, from <https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/synaptic/synaptic_0.84.6_changelog>: synaptic (0.84.6) unstable; urgency=medium [ sajolida ] * Give visual feedback while starting [ Shengjing Zhu ] * configure.in: Miss bumping version str to 0.84.5 * synaptic-pkexec: Do not use pkexec under Wayland; warn users instead * gsynaptic: Show possible reason when failed to init gtk [ Michael Vogt ] * configure.in: Bump version to 0.84.6 -- Michael Vogt <m...@debian.org> Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:39:32 +0200
