Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

[Darac Marjal]

On 28/12/2024 10:06, Andy Smith wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 08:26:26PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:

When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff blind is a
pita. I want to SEE whats available.

I have never in my life felt the need to use synaptic. What am I
missing out on?

Synaptic is a GUI frontend to apt. It's not really much different to aptitude, except that it's maybe a bit more mouse-friendly.

I just use "apt" from a terminal. apticron emails me which updates are
available.

Running headless servers but still wanting a GUI app on each and every
one of them to manage updates? Doesn't sound like the Linux I know!

You can't run a GUI on a headless server. That's the whole point of it being headless. You can run X clients on the server and remotely display that on a workstation (i.e. something _with_ a head), but AFAIK the wayland protocol doesn't support any sort of network transport (you can run a GUI application on a Wayland display by using Xwayland, but that's sort of by-the-by). OK. /Technically/ you can run a GUI on the headless server. You can use things like Xvfb to render the display on the headless server, but you're starting to get into "how many ways to skin a cat". Do you want to send pixels over the network, or do you want to send a stream of drawing instructions?

Thanks,
Andy

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