What No GIMP

[SpecialEd]

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Originally, I tried to add the line via kate, but it would not save. i thought that kate could be used to edit system files. I suppose that I should have used nano.

Kate should work. It should prompt you for a password at save.

Is it problematic to have two package managers on a pc?

Thanks

No, it shouldn't be a problem.

[chimak111]

Kate should work. It should prompt you for a password at save.

Poster's on 16.04. Was that feature available then? I don't remember.

[GreyGeek]

I've moved on from Muon. It's not a hateful application, but after experiencing no reaction from changing a query and GG's comment about there seeming to be an inefficient sort algorithm, I've started using Synaptic and am well satisfied.

I did the same thing.
Waiting for that bubble sort to finish (up to 90 seconds!) every time I did a fresh search, got to be too much.

[jglen490]

I now have gimp installed.via the package manager

Originally, I tried to add the line via kate, but it would not save. i thought that kate could be used to edit system files. I suppose that I should have used nano.

Is it problematic to have two package managers on a pc?

Thanks

No it's not a problem, and the OS won't allow you to use more than one at a time. Technically, I have five: Synaptic, Muon, apt, dpkg, and aptitude

Oh, yeah, and Discover, so six - sort of ...

[anonprivate]

No it's not a problem, and the OS won't allow you to use more than one at a time. Technically, I have five: Synaptic, Muon, apt, dpkg, and aptitude

Oh, yeah, and Discover, so six - sort of ...

Presumably they all read the same database, so the results should be the same

[jlittle]

Muon, synaptic, apt, aptitude, ...

Presumably they all read the same database, so the results should be the same

Very occasionally in breakage states aptitude gives different results to the others, and so can fix things when the others can't. Or at least it did the last time I needed it, several years ago.

Regards, John Little