On 15 May 2013 21:08, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On 15/05/13 20:56, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> On 15 May 2013 20:36, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, well, it's possible I'm under some sort of spell. But I tried
>>> switching
>>> off the privacy control, in case by some peculiar chain of logic that
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> it remains a fact that if
> Synaptic was available in any of the categories of the Software
> Center, including 'Technical Items' if such a thing exists, then a
> general search from the search box would find it, and it doesn't.
It does here:
http://avi.co/s/synapticinsof
On 16/05/13 08:45, Colin Law wrote:
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I was looking at Dash Home, not at the Software Centre. The search box I
was talking about was the one on Dash Home. Synaptic used to be
availab
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I was looking at Dash Home, not at the Software Centre. The search
> box I was talking about was the one on Dash Home. Synaptic used to
> be available direct from there, presumably because it was already
> installed. But no more. I never use the Software Centre (the red
> sh
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:08 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>
> > it remains a fact that if
> > Synaptic was available in any of the categories of the Software
> > Center, including 'Technical Items' if such a thing exists, then a
> > general search from the search box would fi
On 16 May 2013 09:51, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I was looking at Dash Home, not at the Software Centre. The search box I was
> talking about was the one on Dash Home. Synaptic used to be available direct
> from there, presumably because it was already installed. But no more. I
> never use the Softwa
Hi Patrick,
To return to your original request about Java, Oracle have prevented it
being easily available in distributions' own package managers because of a
license change. There's a PPA that gives you easy access to the latest
versions of Java 6, 7 and 8. If you go to
https://launchpad.net/~we
