[ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

[surfer]

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 <pmulvey at 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