[ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

[surfer]

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 <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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 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

Thanks again Rowan