[ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

[Avi Greenbury]

Rowan Berkeley wrote:

> 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.

It does here:

http://avi.co/s/synapticinsoftwarecentre.png

It's in the Universe repository, whose default state I can't remember
but it's not 'main' so it's feasible that it's not enabled by default.
Is that the source of the supposed need to use the terminal to install
it? What's this terminal process? I'm intrigued as to what would cause
a package to be available to (presumably) apt*, but not to the
software centre.

-- 
Avi