Thank you, Ralf! > 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. I'm very familiar with this sites and console utilities - apt-get, apt-cache, aptitude, dpkg, apt-file (searches not installed files). Other site I like is pkgs.org. It searches packages in all linux distibutions (see https://pkgs.org/download/synaptic as example).
>There are helpers such as auto-apt, http://www.debiananwenderhandb uch.de/auto-apt.html so you might not to search anything. Instead of running >The text I found is in English, on the left there is a selection box were you could chose the language, seemingly the original link is in German. Nice catch! I have never used auto-apt. I have heard about it, but not used it before. I'll try to compile something with it :) >> Коля Гурьев >And by the way, why are the search results different? These programs use different repositories? Theoretically gnome-software should show all packages from APT and AppStream <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/>. In practice gnome-software is great new program from hipsters, I think. It is shiny and it is all that we need from it to love it :) >> Jeremy Bicha > Please also try gnome-packagekit. (It installs an app named Packages). I tried gpk-application before writing this first post. Search in description does not work in it, but search by name works. Overall functionality is poor. >One more issue with Synaptic is that it does not work on GNOME on >Wayland, the default session in the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10. You mean bug 1712089 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1712089>, right? I can't reproduce it on fresh QEMU install. It reports that I use normal Xorg in all sessions (ubuntu and GNOME). But synaptic in 17.10 rebuild index often as before, and axi-cache is broken too. For now I'm testing Muon and it seems to be very good. But Synaptic is mature and well-known. In Debian Stretch it works very stable. It is pre-installed as recommendation for Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQT, LXDE and other desktops: $ apt-cache rdepends synaptic synaptic Reverse Depends: aptoncd task-xfce-desktop task-mate-desktop task-lxqt-desktop task-lxde-desktop task-gnome-desktop mate-menu lxqt-config education-desktop-other education-desktop-mate education-desktop-lxde education-desktop-gnome cinnamon-desktop-environment |apt In Ubuntu Xenial we have: $ apt-cache rdepends synaptic synaptic Reverse Depends: aptoncd |apt lubuntu-desktop update-notifier update-manager |apt mate-menu lubuntu-desktop cinnamon-desktop-environment update-notifier |apt update-manager So it *should* work stable on Ubuntu too.
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