Thank you for reply, Matthew! I discovered another great tool - Muon Package Manager. It really rocks. I'll try to use it as Synaptic replacement.
But please take care about aforementioned bugs. I list them again: bug 1612948: axi-cache conversion to python3 broke the script (12 users affected) <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1612948> bug 1685376: Synaptic rebuilds search index very often and inefficient (8 users affected) <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685376> bug 1522675: Warning messages about unsandboxed downloads (368 users affected) <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522675> bug 1533554: Duplicate package entries shown when listing by package origin (48 users affected) <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1533554> With best regards, Norbert. On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> wrote: > Nrbrtx wrote on 24/08/17 01:33: > >… > > As far I can understand here were two methods of software > > installation: > > 1. apt (apt-get), dpkg, aptitude - for advanced users > > 2. synaptic and Ubuntu software-center - for newbies. > > Synaptic is fine for what it is, but it is not even close to being “for > newbies”. It doesn’t show the real name of any app (unless the name > happens to be mentioned in the description), it doesn’t show reviews or > recommendations, it doesn’t show screenshots until you click a “Get > Screenshot” button each time, and it prominently displays propellerhead > jargon like “multiverse”, “Mark All Upgrades”, and “Get Changelog”. > > > Nowadays gnome-software and mate-welcome were added to the newbies' > > list. But they have very small lists of software. > > Ubuntu software-center was great, but its development was dropped. > > > > What we have as result? > > > > There is only one mature and functional software manager. It is named > > *Synaptic*. But ... it works very strange. I talk about Ubuntu 16.04.3 > > LTS (!) here. I do not know why you migrated apt-xapian-index to > > Python3. This migration is incomplete and buggy (see bug 1612948 > > apt-xapian-index was ported to Python 3 because it was one of the tasks > necessary for porting Unity to Python 3. > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/FoundationsXPythonVersions# > apt-xapian-index> > > It was also one of the tasks necessary for porting Ubuntu Software > Center to Python 3. Unfortunately other parts of that project were not > completed. > > -- > mpt > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > ubuntu-desk...@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >
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