On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 20:13:55 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > man synaptic says « It allows you to perform all actions of the command line > tool apt-get in a graphical environemnt. » > > In the help manual I read « Reload the package information to be aware of > the latest versions available: » > > Does this mean that synaptic does _not_ call apt update, and that I should > always run apt update manually before clicking on synaptic? > > Some experiments suggest that this is the case.
You would have to describe the experiments to have anywhere near a convincing case that merited close attention. -- Brian.