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Synaptic
Description
Synaptic is a graphical package management tool based on GTK+ and APT. Synaptic enables you to install, upgrade and remove software packages in a user friendly way.

Besides these basic functions the following features are provided:
* Search and filter the list of available packages
* Perform smart system upgrades
* Fix broken package dependencies
* Edit the list of used repositories (sources.list)
* Download the latest changelog of a package
* Configure packages through the debconf system
* Browse all available documentation related to a package (dwww is required)
Home Page: http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/
Interface: Graphical (Gtk)
Associated Programs
apt-xapian-index maintenance and search tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
deborphan program that can find unused packages, e.g. libraries
dwww Read all on-line documentation with a WWW browser
GNOME su Frontend (gksu) graphical frontend to su
kdebase-bin core binaries for the KDE base applications
libgtk2-perl Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp Toolkit library
menu generates programs menu for all menu-aware applications
rarian-compat Documentation meta-data library (compatibility tools)
software-properties-gtk manage the repositories that you install software from
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 0.70~pre1+b1 0.70~pre1+b1
testing 0.75.2 0.75.2
sid 0.75.3 0.75.3

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 0.61ubuntu9 0.61ubuntu9
lucid 0.63.1ubuntu6 0.63.1ubuntu6
natty 0.75.1ubuntu2 0.75.1ubuntu2

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