On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 18:45 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On 15/05/13 17:33, surfer wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:20 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > >> On 15/05/13 17:09, Colin Law wrote: > >>> On 15 May 2013 16:51, surfer <pmul...@gofast.co.uk> wrote: > >>>> I have just updated my system to 12.10. > >>>> > >>>> I have been looking for both recent versions of Java and Postgresql, but > >>>> cannot find a key or lock that I can use to download them. Before I used > >>>> Synaptec, which seems no longer to exist. > >>>> > >>>> I wonder if somebody could assist me > >>> You can use the Software Center for installing applications, or if you > >>> want to use synaptic then install that either using the Software > >>> Center or, in a terminal, > >>> sudo apt-get install synaptic > >>> > >>> Colin > >>> > >>> Actually, you can't get Synaptic via the Software Center. I'm sure > >>> Patrick tried that before posting. Indeed, we all tried it, and the > >>> absence of Synaptic from the Software Center has occasioned a lot of > >>> unfavourable comment. But of course you can get it with the terminal. > >> > > Thank you Rowan. I have managed to download Synaptic through apt-get, > > but for some reason I cannot seem to use the Apply button as it has been > > greyed out. Consequently, I am relying on apt-get to download all of the > > packages I need. > > > > Perhaps I should have downloaded a text only version of Debian. > > > > However, many thanks > > > > Patrick Mulvey > > > > > Once you have installed it via the terminal, then it will become > available in the Software Center when you enter the first few letters of > its name in the search box. I don't know what Liam is talking about > vis-a-vis a Technical Applications option in the Software Center: I > don't see that option. have noticed other people (on Launchpad, I think) > complaining that since 12.10, Synaptic simply wasn't as easily available > as it had previously been, and could not be found by using the search > bar in the Software Center, which would seem to indicate it isn't there > in any of the Software Center categories, until you get it via the Terminal. > > Anyway, Patrick, the reason you are seeing a greyed out Apply button is > that you have opened it without authenticating yourself, which it ought > to ask you to do. Therefore you are seeing it in a view only mode. What > I always do is, having found it, drag and drop the launcher icon into my > launchers and lock it there. After that, it will ask for authentication > each time I open it and having received authentication, it will give me > full access including Apply to add or remove whatever I wish. You need > to get it to ask for your authentication before it opens. I don't know > why it hasn't warned you that without authentication, you will have a > view only mode. It did that to me once. But it is just a matter of how > exactly you attempt to launch it. > Thank you for responding Rowan.
On opening it whether by clicking on the icon or running it as a command, I am prompted to authenticate myself, which I do without difficulty, but the button is still greyed out. Many thanks Patrick Mulvey -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
