Theme in APEX 4.0.1

Hi, I've just upgraded from apex 4 to apex 4.0.1.
In there a reason why i can see only one theme "Simple Red - 1"?
I'm using Oracle XE on Ubuntu.
I did
@patches/4.0.1/apxldimg.sql /usr/lib/oracle/xe/apex
at the end of the update process, successfully executed.
If i check in the apex/images directory i can find all the images and all the themes.
Any hint?
Thank you very much
matteo

Matteo,
In all previous versions of HTML DB and Application Express, all of the themes were not installed in your application by default. All of the themes were available to be installed in your application.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17556_01/doc/user.40/e15517/themes.htm#BABGCDEF
I hope this helps.
Joel

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