On 15 May 2013 21:08, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15/05/13 20:56, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> On 15 May 2013 20:36, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> 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 was >>> relevant, but it still wasn't there. There's 'Legal Notice' at the bottom >>> right, but nothing at the bottom left. In any case, to return to the >>> original query, 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. That is why people have to use the terminal to obtain >>> Synaptic. >> >> YES IT DOES. >> >> Because if there is one thing that irritates me more than a bolshie >> user who can't see what is in front of them, it's a user who can't see >> what is in front of them and tells me I am wrong. >> >> So I just fired up my VM with Raring installed - full clean install, >> Unity, no extras - and tried it. >> >> The first hit in Ubuntu Software Centre when I search for "Synaptic" is: >> >> Synaptic Package Manager ***** (266) >> Install, remove and upgrade software packages >> >> And at the bottom of the screen, it says: >> >> Show 8 technical items >> >> In other words, it does EXACTLY what I have described and when you >> keep telling people "you can't install Synaptic from the Ubuntu >> Software Centre" you are wrong. >> >> >> >> -- >> Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile >> Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven >> MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven >> Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 >> > You have a regrettable tendency to personalise everything. It would be > simpler, and less offensive, to accept that for some reason we're looking at > different versions of the Software Center, or different 'pages' in it, so to > speak.
Post a screenshot please, then everything should be resolved. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
