So people who love GeoEye, 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 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 in 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 GTK Plus and APT, and there
is a lot of other information as well.
All right.
So we are going to install this tool now.
So I'm going to run the command apt, install synaptic and hit enter.
It would take a 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 EDS.
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, a 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 this 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.