“If you are a command line guru, you call upon your zypper, yum,
conary, or apt-get from the terminal, and you awk sed grep your way
to what you’re after.“For me, unless I know exactly what package I want–and I often
don’t–I typically turn to Synaptic, the graphical package manager
that graces my Ubuntu notebook. Synaptic is a really nice
application, and I’ve spent untold hours nerdily sifting through
the massive software catalog that Ubuntu inherits from
Debian…”
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