On Mon, 14 Oct, 2019 at 08:44:28 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.
[...] I appreciate that the history is complicated, but the fact that synaptic is not deprecated is simple enough. Moreover, Gene indicates that he wishes to use synaptic with X forwarding, and is unlikely to be troubled by its incompatibility with wayland.
