On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:14:43 -0400 gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On 6/16/23 14:38, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 2:32 PM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > wrote: > >> > >> greetings, just had to reinstall bullseye. from an 11.2 netinstall. > >> > >> Sudo -E cannot run synaptic, and cannot run it from menu pulldown > >> after entering my pw. So what package manager with a gui for > >> selection is compatible with wayland? Something I can get apt to > >> install from a sudo -i shell? > > > > For Debian, the official package manager is Apt and Aptitude. See > > https://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude . > > > > Jeff > > . > Has aptitude been tamed? > > I've stayed away from it now for years because its torn the system > down with its idea of dependencies, to doing a reinstall 4 times in > the decade passed. I do not trust it at all, been burned to the > ground too many times. With apt, I was able to remove cups-browsed > all by itself with apt so the brother factory drivers could actually > run my pair of brother printers just now. I have serious doubts > aptitude would have allowed that without nuking 300 other files too. > Like the kernel thats running once. That is not an ooops but nobody > seemed to notice at the time. The arm version seems to be ok, but x86 > stuff? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. Please forgive my ignorance. But from what I've heard, apt and apt-get manage packages differently, and aptitude does it differently as well. Why isn't there a ONE WAY for packages to be managed? You'd think this would a high priority for the Debian team. If the answer is, "We don't want to break stuff from long ago", why not just deprecate things over time? And why hasn't anyone made a Wayland-native port of Synaptic? Is it planned? If not, why not? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
