Hi,

I think the suggested package names were just incorrectly named in the
message. I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and after installing
xscreensaver-data-extra and xscreensaver-gl-extra, all the screensavers
seem to be enabled. However, the xscreensaver GUI suggested
xscreensaver-extras and xscreensaver-gl-extras, which there are no
packages with those exact names in the repos.

However, as for comment #2: after I had installed xscreensaver-data-
extra and xscreensaver-gl-extra, I uninstalled them and moved the
.xscreensaver file as you suggested to see what would happen. After
that, it simply said "Not Installed" rather than the previous message. I
think this message is fine since less info is better than false info,
but I'm just not sure whether it was the installing and uninstalling of
those packages or if it was the .xscreensaver file being regenerated
that caused the message to change.

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