On 15/05/13 20:29, Liam Proven wrote:
On 15 May 2013 20:17, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> 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.
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