SYNAPTIC(8)

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✨ SYNAPTIC(8) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the System Manager's Manual section 8, aka the girlies-who-run-sudo zone 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

synaptic — graphical management of software packages. that's it, that's the vibe. packages, but make it pretty. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

synaptic [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so. Synaptic is a frontend for the apt package management system. literally all your apt-get command-line main-character moves, but in a graphical environment ✨. and when I say all, I mean all:

  • installing packages 🍓
  • upgrading packages ⭐
  • downgrading packages 💀
  • removing packages 🙈
  • and yes, upgrading your whole entire system 👑

single packages, whole systems, she does it all. no cap.

also there's a full manual with detailed instructions hiding in the help menu of Synaptic, bestie. it's right there. go read it. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Synaptic accepts all of the standard GTK toolkit command line options — yes, all of them, she's flexible like that — plus these extra ones:

  • -f, --filter-file=filename — specify an alternative filter settings file. different filters, different file, your call 💅
  • -i, --initial-filter=int — apply the filter with number int at startup. pick your filter number and she'll show up wearing it 🔥
  • -o, --option=option — set an internal option (experts only). like, if you have to ask... 😭 this one is for the deep lore girlies only.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

okay history lesson, sit down, this is iconic:

Synaptic was originally developed by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@conectiva.com.br>. His last official release was 0.16. 🌱

Then Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> took over his CVS version — which already included a nearly complete port to GTK. Michael finished the port and added new features. See the NEWS file for the user visible changes from that point on. 📰

Conectiva is still involved in the development of synaptic. Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com> is doing a great deal of work. the way they all just kept building... obsessed 🫶

All development is done at https://github.com/mvo5/synaptic — go lurk, go contribute, go be part of the story ✨

This manual page was originally written by Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> and Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> and modified by Sebastian Heinlein <sebastian.heinlein@campus.lmu.de>. docs girlies ate, fr fr 💅

Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Conectiva S/A

Copyright (C) 2002-2025 Michael Vogt

There is NO warranty. like, none. zero. bestie, you're on your own if it breaks 😭

You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. 📜

and that's the whole page, bestie — originally dropped on Jan 24, 2025, brought to you by the System Manager's Manual crew, section 8, SYNAPTIC(8) 💖 stay slaying, and always read the help menu 🌈

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