July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 5: Package Management
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categories are section (e.g., view only development-related pack-
ages), package status, alphabetic (e.g., view only packages whose
name starts with the letter A), search history, or filter.
If you choose to display by filter, there are a set of predefined
filters, or you can define your own. The predefined filters include
ones to display all packages, packages marked for a status change,
packages that can be configured with debconf (Debian systems
only), packages with broken dependencies, and packages that can
be upgraded to a later version. You can edit the existing filters or
define your own, by selecting Preferences
➝ Filters from the Edit
menu.
Once you’ve used the selection criteria to find the list of packages,
you can select a single package, or you can select multiple pack-
ages by holding down the Shift or Ctrl key. Like apt-get, first do an
update to update the package lists, then you can do an install or
upgrade.
To start synaptic from Gnome, select System tools
➝ Synaptic
Package Manager from the Application menu. From the KDE
menu, select Settings
➝ Extra ➝ Synaptic Package Manager. You
can also start the graphical interface from the command line, with
the command:
synaptic [options]
Options
In addition to the following options, synaptic accepts
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