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in Synaptic, trying to get to System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager and cannot locate it.

Asked by John Woolington

I need to get to System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager in order to put something in the Other Sources tab, however, I cannot even locate the System file.

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John Woolington (woolingtonj) said : 		#1

anyone?

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John Woolington (woolingtonj) said : 		#2

Please help...need to finish downloading a program for work project and can't locate this!!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You can run:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add it there. If it is a PPA link you can use:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:address

obviously change 'ppa:address; for the actual PPA

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