Unlike Synaptic Package Manager, which is the main tool in Ubuntu to deal with installed and avaialble from repositories (Software Sources) packages, Gnome Package Finder only provides information about packages, it can neither install nor remove the package, and because of this, it does not require administative rights to work. It also works about twice faster for the same search.
Gnome Package Manager allows to search through package names, their short or long descriptions for the given model. The matching packages are shown in the list, which indicates also the state of the installed packages. Another possibility is to search for a file name inside the packages. This search takes much longer and the output contains package names and the full path to the matching files, in case they were installed.
When one got the list of packages, for every one in the list common information about the package can be obtained, along with its dependencies and the list of files, this package would install.
Keyboard shortcuts provide an easy way to navigate and perform all operations without involving the mouse. The help system covers most of what you may want to know about Gnome Package Finder.
The installation binary package as well as the source files can be downloaded from:
http://www.gtk-apps.org/.
It is released under the terms of Gnu General Public Licence (GPL).
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