Synaptic Reviews

Synaptic Description

Synaptic is a graphical package manager program for apt. It offers the same features as apt-get's command-line utility, but with a GUI front-end built on Gtk+. You can install, remove, upgrade, and downgrade single or multiple packages. Upgrade your entire system. Manage package repositories (sources.list). You can search for packages by name, description, or other attributes. You can filter packages by section, name, status, or custom filter. Sort packages by name and version. You can search all online documentation about a package. Download the most recent changelog for a package. Lock packages to the latest version. Forcing the installation of a particular package version. Undo/Redo selections. Built-in terminal emulator to the package manager. Only for Debian/Ubuntu, configure packages using the debconf system. Only for Debian/Ubuntu, Xapain-based fast searches (thanks to Enrico Zini).