Software Man vs Package Man

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DrHu

Re: Software Man vs Package Man

Post by DrHu »

They both essentially do the same thing, Synaptic (Package manager) doesn't use some Mint custom services, like safety levels for updates
--other than that, I can't see any advantage for Mintinstall

And despite prognostications to the opposite I have never had any problems using Synaptic
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-A ... 2572.shtml
  • Distributions almost can't help themselves, branding their style..
Linux Mint..
http://www.linuxmint.com/software/
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Husse

Re: Software Man vs Package Man

Post by Husse »

The Software manager and the Software portal (which you can reach from a web browser) are the same thing and are more newbie friendly than synaptic, but all three can do the same thing and mintInstall (The Software manager) actually uses synaptic in the background
Synaptic is a frontend to apt
It can be difficult to decide which package to install in Synaptic, but if you know that it's easy to use
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