Synaptic Package Manager Beginners Guide For Ubuntu Users

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"Synaptic is a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing software packages on Debian-based distributions. If you are using Debian or Ubuntu you will easily find Synaptic in the System Tools menu or in the Administration menu. Synaptic uses the GTK graphic libraries . So, if you are using GNOME on your debian-based distro you will probably have Synaptic installed as well. 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+.

"Now we will see how to add repositories,install,remove and update software packages

"Adding repositories Using Synaptic

"To Open Synaptic Package manager go to System--->Administration--->Synaptic package manager"

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