Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:35:39PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > > (My own notion of a 'GUI package manager' is apt-get in an xterm. My > own notion of how to make sure an application has superuser privilege > is to do 'su -' to get it. policykit? I don't need no steenin > policykit.) So do I. E

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-11 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 10/01/2020 à 18:15, Andreas Messer a écrit : On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 07:16:38PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: # apt install libelogind0 libpam-elogind synaptic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional package

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Andreas Messer (a...@bastelmap.de): > Back to topic: I personally stick with apt or aptitude but since the > the family sticks more or less to GUI, I have also installed > "muon". It is Qt/KDE based and is quite similar to aptitude. I didn't like > synaptic since it performs too much "back

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-10 Thread Andreas Messer
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 07:16:38PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > > # apt install libelogind0 libpam-elogind synaptic > > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following additional packages will be installed: > elogind li

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi, goli...@devuan.org writes: > On Thu 09/Jan/2020 17:50:15 +0100 Mark Hindley wrote: >> >>> Alternatively, use apt or aptitude from the commandline. > > https://pkginfo.devuan.org/ might also be helpful Thanks for the pointer. I do believe Ascii is 2.1.0 now, though, not 2.0.0 as shown in the

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-10 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 10.01.20 11:10, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > On Fri 10/Jan/2020 01:35:55 +0100 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 09.01.20 17:44, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > >> > >> Synaptic is convenient as it allows to search for keywords, e.g. "pdf", and > >> choose a package that does the task at

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-10 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Dng
On Fri 10/Jan/2020 01:35:55 +0100 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 09.01.20 17:44, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: >> >> Synaptic is convenient as it allows to search for keywords, e.g. "pdf", and >> choose a package that does the task at hand. Google does the same, but is >> not >> version specif

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-09 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 09.01.20 17:44, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > Hi, > > is there a recommended GUI package browser for Devuan? > > After migrating, synaptic isn't installed. If I try to install it, it says it > needs policykit-1. Since the latter seems to be akin to systemd, I reply 'n'. > > Synaptic is

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 06:04:18PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > > Hm... in fact I have consolekit installed. And if I try to remove it, apt > wants to install elogind instead. Perhaps consolekit is less bad...? I heard recently that Devuan is itself the upstream that Debian uses fo

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-09 Thread Mark Hindley
I don't quite understand what you want. To use synaptic you need to accept policykit-1 and either elogind or consolekit. Mark ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-09 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Dng
On Thu 09/Jan/2020 18:20:55 +0100 Dimitris via Dng wrote: > On 1/9/20 7:04 PM, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: >> >> Hm... in fact I have consolekit installed. And if I try to remove it, apt >> wants to install elogind instead. Perhaps consolekit is less bad...? >> >> > > consolekit goes awa

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-09 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 1/9/20 7:04 PM, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > > Hm... in fact I have consolekit installed. And if I try to remove it, apt > wants to install elogind instead. Perhaps consolekit is less bad...? > > consolekit goes away, but do you get synaptic? what happens with : # apt install libelo

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-09 Thread golinux
On Thu 09/Jan/2020 17:50:15 +0100 Mark Hindley wrote: Alternatively, use apt or aptitude from the commandline. https://pkginfo.devuan.org/ might also be helpful ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/l

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-09 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Dng
On Thu 09/Jan/2020 17:50:15 +0100 Mark Hindley wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a recommended GUI package browser for Devuan? >> >> After migrating, synaptic isn't installed. If I try to install it, it says >> it >> needs

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-09 Thread Mark Hindley
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > Hi, > > is there a recommended GUI package browser for Devuan? > > After migrating, synaptic isn't installed. If I try to install it, it says it > needs policykit-1. Since the latter seems to be akin to systemd, I repl

[DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-09 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Dng
Hi, is there a recommended GUI package browser for Devuan? After migrating, synaptic isn't installed. If I try to install it, it says it needs policykit-1. Since the latter seems to be akin to systemd, I reply 'n'. Synaptic is convenient as it allows to search for keywords, e.g. "pdf", and cho