The technical details page could be a little more user friendly

Bug #771787 reported by Dave Morley
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Software Center Agent
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Bug Description:
As it stands the tech info pages linked to from the purchase emails are a little to tech for the likes of my mom. It would be more useful if it read somthing along the lines of "Hit Alt+F2, type gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list then cop paste the line below to the bottom of that document"

That way a novice can access their app from the deb line too.

Version:
Django 1.1.1
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 14:15:55) [GCC 4.4.3]
preflight 0.1
SCA 11.04.dev3~1.IS.10.04; r
openid 2.2.1

OS:
64 bit Natty

Browser:
FF 4.0

Problem URL:
https://sc.staging.ubuntu.com/subscription/<subscription number>

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Buy an application
2. From the email provided for the application click on the if you have a problem try link
3. Note the terminology and think how a computer novice might view it

Expected Result:
We need to consider novices even in technical details of this nature. The likelihood is it will never be need to be used but always better to be prepared for the one time when it is.

Changed in software-center-agent:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
Dave Morley (davmor2)
Changed in software-center-agent:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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