About Synaptic Package Manager
Synaptic Package Manager is
GTK+- based GUI for apt (Advance Packaging Tool)- the
package management used by Debian and its
derivatives. Synaptic Package Manager- a very handy tool, used to install,
remove and update software packages and add repositories. Though, based on deb packages but can be used on the
system bsed on RPM packages.
Features
- Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages System-wide upgrade
- Package search utility
- Manage package repositories
- Find packages by name, description and several other attributes
- Select packages by status, section, name or a custom filter
- Sort packages by name, status, size or version
- Browse available online documentation related to a package
- Download the latest changelog of a package
- Lock packages to the current version
- Force the installation of a specific package version
- Undo/Redo of selections
- Built-in terminal emulator for the package manager
- Allows creation of download scripts
I have tested it on Kali
Linux 1.1.0a machine with 32-bit architecture. To begin
installing Synaptic Package Manager on your system,
1. Please
add below two repositories
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib
non-free
to sources.list file
(path: Computer -> File System -> etc -> apt -> sources.list).
Save the
Note: Before saving sources.list file, make sure that it shouldn't have duplicate entries of repository/ ies or else you may get 404 error or unmet dependency error.
2. Now
open terminal and type apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to
update kali linux.
3. Once done, execute apt-get
install synaptic and then apt-get install software-center.
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