ubuntu gui package managers?

[Paul Merrell]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
<hank.smith966 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello in ubuntu 14.04 besides the command line apt-get for getting software
> what are folks using in the unity or gnome interfaces for downloading and
> installing software?

In Mint 17, derived from Ubuntu 14.04, the default GUI package
managers are Synaptic and Software Manager. I don't know why, but the
latter always offers far more packages than Synaptic. Currently 72965
packages available through Software Manager vs. 46767 through
Synaptic.

Best regards,

Paul

-- 
[Notice not included in the above original message:  The U.S. National
Security Agency neither confirms nor denies that it intercepted this
message.]