[PLUG] Gnome-Software, apt

wes plug at the-wes.com
Fri Jun 24 20:37:03 UTC 2016


On any new install, I use the "Ubuntu Software Center" to install Synaptic
as my first action. I don't know why Gnome-Software is so limited... well,
yes I do, I just don't agree with it.

-wes

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
> wrote:

> In ubuntu 16.04 the package manager GUI is Gnome-Software.  (You would not
> know that just by looking at the name provided by hovering over the icon
> nor by launching it and looking for a help/about menu-none exists.)
>
> I search for stress in Gnome-Software and get nothing found.  Using
> apt-cache search stress it is found.  I thought the GUI was a front-end for
> apt.  I have searched for problems such as this and tried setting the
> language to English to no avail.
>
> Any ideas on what is going on?
>
> -Denis
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