Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:53:41PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
>
> On 28/12/2024 10:06, Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 08:26:26PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > > When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff blind is a
> > > pita. I want to SEE whats available.
> > I have never in my life felt the need to use synaptic. What am I
> > missing out on?
> Synaptic is a GUI frontend to apt. It's not really much different to
> aptitude, except that it's maybe a bit more mouse-friendly.
That much I know. I am wondering what its killer feature is that Gene
wants to work so hard to make it run on a headless single board computer
that one would think to be wholly unsuitable for running GUI apps.
> > I just use "apt" from a terminal. apticron emails me which updates are
> > available.
> >
> > Running headless servers but still wanting a GUI app on each and every
> > one of them to manage updates? Doesn't sound like the Linux I know!
>
> You can't run a GUI on a headless server. That's the whole point of it
> being headless. You can run X clients on the server and remotely
> display that on a workstation (i.e. something _with_ a head)
I thought it was obvious that was what I was referring to, but clearly
not.
Even that makes no sense to me in most cases, certainly not in the case
of multiple Banana Pi and a desktop that seems to run Wayland. Hence I
am suggesting that Gene is going in completely the wrong direction here.
Thanks,
Andy
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