Synaptic Package Manager
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| Synaptic Package Manager | |
 A screenshot of Synaptic |
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| Developer: | Michael Vogt |
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| Latest release: | 0.57.11 / 2006-07-27 |
| OS: | Linux |
| Use: | Package Manager |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | nongnu.org/synaptic |
Synaptic is a computer program which is a GTK+ graphical user interface and front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool for the Debian package management system. Synaptic is usually used on systems based on deb packages but can also be used on systems based on RPM packages. It can be used to install, remove and upgrade software packages and to add repositories.
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Synaptic development was funded by Conectiva, that asked Alfredo Kojima, then an employee, to write a graphical frontend for APT, continuing the work initiated with the creation of the APT RPM backend, apt-rpm, eventually it became used in Conectiva's install process. Gustavo Niemeyer also worked on it, while working for Conectiva. It is now maintained by Michael Vogt.
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