Corey Burger wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Scott Ritchie <[email protected]> wrote: >> I installed 9.04 on my girlfriend's EeePC and discovered that, while it >> can be run manually from a terminal, there's no way to launch >> Gnome-App-Install from the interface. Instead I had to rely on >> synaptic, which for me had some very weird issues with its quick search >> button - it looked like there were zero packages other than what was >> already installed. I couldn't even find flash that way. >> >> I can only imagine what difficulty my girlfriend would have encountered >> if I asked her to install Flash and Frozen Bubble on her own, and how >> much easier this would be if Gnome-App-Install were available somewhere. >> >> Why don't we put it on the applications menu in netbook remix? Or, at >> the least, somewhere in the administration menu? > > There are two issues here: > > 1. UNR is lpia, not i386, hence no flash. Given lpia basically is i386 > plus some funky stuff, from what I understand, you should be able to > force i386 packages to install on lpia. There has to be a better > solution, however. >
Installing flashplugin-installer worked fine. > 2. G-a-i is buried in the Accessories menu. Trust me, I had to go > looking for it as well. One possible solution would be to have a fixed > menu entry at he the button left, opposite the quit button. > > Cheers, > > Corey Ah hah. Yes, this is very unintuitive, especially for someone who's used Ubuntu before. A better place than accessories would be the Administration menu (next to Synaptic), or, better still, at the very bottom. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
