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well if it says it can't find it, then the repositorys that you have for apt-get
do not contain synaptic ... the best i can suggest is searching the web
that has synaptic in its repository and add it to your apt-get config file for
the repositorys and then do an apt-get install synaptic ...
OK I got it installed OK by downloading it. It helped a lot when I figured out that I did not want the 64 bit version!
Last question [for today], is there a way to get a shortcut on the desktop for programs [text editors & synaptic] or do I just have to access them with "run application"?
Thank you very much. I have Gnome, and once I figured out what command to put in for the shortcut I was all set.
I am stumbling around a lot but thanks to helpful forums like this one I am making some progress and having a very good time along the way.
One of these days my "good" computer [as in more memory, large hard drive faster processor etc] will have zeros written to the drive and Linux loaded. Goodbye to Windows XP.
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