Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command-line utility with a GUI using GTK. It's available in Debian and most derivatives.

To install: sudo apt install synaptic

You can see what version is available for your release here:

• Debian package page
• Ubuntu package page

The Readme file has both project history and a tutorial.

Development is done at https://github.com/mvo5/synaptic

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