Gksu in 14.04?

[Tom H]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:21 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> synaptic | 0.81.1ubuntu1 | http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
>> trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages
>> synaptic | 0.81.1 | http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
>> trusty/universe amd64 Packages
>
> Can someone explain why synaptic is in universe and not main?  Was
> there a replacement or did Canonical just decide to dump it?

I've never used either but I assume the Ubuntu Software Center is the
reason - or is the latter different?