Quote Originally Posted by nishtya
Hi champagne! Have to say that I really haven't had much trouble with kpackage. It is a bit weak as far as "what was the problem" exactly when installing a package fails, but in general it fetches the dependencies just fine for me. Where it also can be a pain is when I go "shopping spree" for several unrelated things, one of them will fail for whatever reason leaving the rest unconfigured in limbo. So I often have to fall back to command line with dpkg --configure -a to get the rest done. It may not be the most intuitive front end for apt but I love making a "shopping list" and ticking off things
Kpackage fetches dependencies for you? It doesn't for me. It just tells me that it can't install and shows me why. Mind you it's then an easy fix in the CLI, but I've pretty much stopped using KPackage due to it never getting the dependencies for me. Synaptic will...and it will also let me do the shopping list type of thing you're talking about. Are you sure that's not what you're thinking of?