On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:32:34 +0300, Nrbrtx wrote: >>OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that >>anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use >>a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that. Obviously I am wrong. >lol :) > >In other words gnome-software is not a good alternative for >software-center. It's a bad parody. > >So Synaptic bugs should be fixed.
Synaptic suffers from far too many issues since a very long time. I recommend to use a combination of command line tools and your favourite GUI web browser ;). To see into what packages software from upstream is split https://tracker.debian.org/ is helpful. Helpful is https://packages.ubuntu.com/ in combination with Google. Yes, if you really need to search for something, the devil works better than more ethical search engines. There are helpers such as auto-apt, http://www.debiananwenderhandbuch.de/auto-apt.html so you might not to search anything. Instead of running make after searching the required packages, just running auto-apt make might do the job without searching and installing packages. Note, I'm more an Arch Linux user and lost a little bit track of Ubuntu tools, but if I want to do something on Ubuntu, I'm not missing synaptic when using command line and a web browser. It's vice versa, I would miss command line and a web browser, when using synaptic again. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
