Synaptic in Hoary

[Daniel Robitaille]

> Thanks Ari.  Now I know where it's supposed to be.  I ran
> 'find / -name synaptic' and it wasn't anywhere, so I did
> 'apt-get install synaptic' and now it's on the menu where
> it should be.
> 
> Don't know why it disappeared during the dist-upgrade though.

is the metapackage "ubuntu-desktop" installed on our machine?  If it
is installed the that package will make sure that you have all the
default (and sometimes important!) ubuntu packages installed, 
including synaptic in your case.