Some basic packages missing from fresh install

[vinay_wagh]

Recently I installed 11.10 32bit (on the existing 11.04, this was not upgrade) on my AMD64. After installation was complete I was shocked to find that basic packages like synaptic, gedit and evince are missing.

I managed to get the things working by installing synaptic from command line and then remaining packages.

I could reproduce the same on the same PC, however, the second attempt (of installation), it failed (I mean it installed all these packages).

Any idea why this would have happened? Is there any was I could have checked?

Regards
-- VInay

[Frogs Hair]

Evince was included in my clean installation of 11.10 , but the synaptic package was removed as a default application starting with 11.10 .

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ununtu-linux-install-removed-synaptic-package-manager.html

[snowpine]

Hi Vinay, if you are looking for a list of which apps are included in Ubuntu by default, here you go:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ubuntu-desktop
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes

Ubuntu Software Center has replaced Synaptic in the default install.