So people who love GUI which stands
for graphical user interface.
Would definitely love this lesson.
Here we are going to use a package
manager, which is called as synaptic.
This package manager gives you a very
very simple interface which is user friendly,
which allows you to perform all
the tasks that we did using apt from
command line.
The only difference over here is a very nice simple
to use GUI interface with
all the power of what apt has.
So how do you install synaptic the command to install
synaptic is apt install synaptic.
So it's a practical time. Let's Deep dive
and see how you can install synaptic which
gives you a very simple graphical user
interface to install and remove programs.
So on my terminal I'm going to first say APD
show synaptic because I want
to see the package related details and here
you can see and read in the description it
mentions.
That it's a graphical package management tool that
is based on GDK plus and apt.
And there is a lot of other information as well.
alright
so
We're going to install this tool now. So I'm going to run the
command ABT install synaptic and hit enter.
It would take few seconds to install this tool successfully
and as you can see we have successfully installed
it.
Now to start this I'm going to search for this
tool and here you can see the synaptic package
manager window.
On your left, you can see the categories in
which all the packages are clubbed together.
So let us take an example, so I'm
going to go and search for a specific package.
Install it and remove it and show you.
So let's say we go to editors. Yeah, you can see the
package name installed version latest version
description Etc. So let us
pick cherry tree.
So we all are aware about cherry tree and note taking application and
you can see when I search for it. We are
able to see it as well that it is installed.
Now let us remove this. So I'm
going to click on Mark for removal.
When I do this, I need to apply the changes
on this specific package.
It is going to give you a summary of what is going to happen and
I'll click apply.
Here you can see it has successfully removed the
software and we got a prompt which says change is
applied.
Now, let's go back and see if we can
find cherry tree in our system and you can see no it
has been successfully removed. When you run the
command for Cherry Tree on your terminal you won't be able
to run it because it is successfully removed.
So let us now bring back cherry tree
and install it using the synaptic package manager.
So I'm going to select it and I'm
going to click on apply.
When I click on apply it is going to again give us a prompt that
these two packages would be installed.
And you can see it has successfully installed it.
amazing
Let's go back and check if we have cherry tree
installed back in our system and you can
see yes it is successfully installed.
So this was synaptic package manager, which gives
you a very very simple GUI interface with
all the categories of software that you can
search here as well find it install remove
upgrade Etc.
I hope you guys understood. Thank you.