Apparently Muon was kicked out of Debian/Ubuntu for being inactive, but since it’ll take a while longer for bitrot to set in, for now a quick forwardport will suffice.
Muon is nice for quickly being able to select multiple things at once and it searches while you type. They’re just a few little UI conveniences. Synaptic is seemingly identical, but there you have to authenticate even before performing any actions, which makes it much more annoying to use.
dget -xu http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/muon/muon_5.8.0-2ubuntu1.dsc
cd muon-5.8.0
dch --local ~frenzie "forwardport"
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -sa
cd ..
sudo apt install ./muon_5.8.0-2ubuntu1~frenzie1_amd64.debFor more info on how to backport packages, see this random search result.
The post Forwardport (reverse backport) Muon to Ubuntu 24.04 was written by Frans at The One with the Thoughts of Frans.
