Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.

Features

(as of version 0.62)

  • Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages.
  • Upgrade your whole system.
  • Manage package repositories (sources.list).
  • Find packages by name, description and several other attributes.
  • Select packages by status, section, name or a custom filter.
  • Sort packages by name, status, size or version.
  • Browse all available online documentation related to a package.
  • Download the latest changelog of a package.
  • Lock packages to the current version.
  • Force the installation of a specifc package version.
  • Undo/Redo of selections.
  • Built-in terminal emulator for the package manager.
  • Debian/Ubuntu only: Configure packages through the debconf system.
  • Debian/Ubuntu only: Xapain based fast search (thanks to Enrico Zini)
  • Debian/Ubuntu only: Get screenshots from screenshots.debian.net

Download

Source code and Debian binaries:
Savannah.nongnu.org project page.

Debian packages:
can be found in unstable and testing, add either one to your sources and do apt-get install synaptic.
See the Debian package page.

Latest version (bzr): Synaptic uses the bazaar-ng version control system (bzr), which is available at:
launchpad.
 

Changelog

The changelog is available in the repository with bzr log. You can also view it in the repository.

Building synaptic

To compile you will need Gtk+ 2.4 (or later) There is optional support for output into libvte.

 Last change: 07. Januar 2009 Design 2004 © by Daniel Paarmann