[ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 15/05/13 20:29, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 15 May 2013 20:17, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not in mine. I suppose we could compare screenshots. I could take a
>> screenshot of mine and put somewhere for you to see. I have vanilla 13.04 on
>> three machines, and I can testify that what you describe is not what is on
>> any of them.
> I've been in tech support for 25 years now. I lost count before the
> end of the 1980s of the number of times that users absolutely sworn
> blind to me that some option I described was not on *their* screen, no
> sir, no way, absolutely not.
>
> Then I walk over to their computer, sometimes after an hour or two's
> travel, and lean over their shoulder and point at their screen and
> they jump and go "oh! That! I didn't realise you meant that!"
>
> Some try, very unconvincingly, to claim that it wasn't there before,
> honest, it wasn't.
>
> Some just look sheepish.
>
> What's more, you and I have crossed swords on this list before now,
> Rowan. So I am not going to go into great length on this.
>
> It's there. If you can't see it, it's your problem. Follow the steps
> I've described, read the *very bottom line* of the Ubuntu Software
> Centre window, and there it is in the status bar, on the left.
>
> I just tried it again with a random search, from the last site I was looking at.
>
> USC, enter "onion", hit Return.
>
> Result, 2 hits: Tupi 2D Magic and Pizza pizza, and at the bottom,
> "Show 5 technical items", in red, underlined.
>
> It is there, it works, it shows the non-GUI and system tools that
> ordinary users should generally not fiddle with. If you have not
> noticed it, I really doubt that it is anything special with your
> installation.
>
> More screenshots:
> http://itsfoss.com/how-to-remove-old-linux-kernel-version-in-ubuntu-12-10/
>
> That window is *identical* to the one in 13.04's USC.
>
>
>
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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.