On 15/05/13 19:06, surfer wrote:
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
That suggests to me that you aren't logged in as the owner but as a
guest, and so your rights are restricted even when you authenticate. It
sounds elementary, but I can't think of any other explanation. Have a
look at the drop-down that appears when you click on the shutdown/change
user icon in the extreme top right corner, at the end of the menu bar.
This sounds too obvious to be worth saying, but I can't think of
anything else.
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