(Solved) Setting Synaptic/Gdebi As Default Package Manager?

[wolfman]

Hi,

click on wizd3m's link again and scroll down to my answer and set it to open with "Gdebi", afaik, you cannot open a single .deb package with Synaptic?:

Add Synaptic to the Mate-Menu

This will be changed in a future update, but until then it could be helpful. If you are like me and love the Mate-Menu then maybe you also have install Synaptic. But whenever you click on the Package Manger link in the menu the Ubuntu Software Center starts. So I wanted to change that and it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it to be. Fire up the terminal, backup /usr/lib/ubuntu-mate/mate-menu/plugins/system_management.py and open it with your favorite editor. I will use geany. cd /usr/lib/ubu…

See the Synaptic guide, maybe I missed something?:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto#Installing_Packages