On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 19:15 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > 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. > You are right I was logged in as a non-sudo user. However, I managed to get it to work in that user by authenticating as a sudo user. I don't believe this is how 11.10 worked. If you tried to authenticate as a sudo user in a non-sudo user then things did not happen. Maybe this is a change in 12.10
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