No particle button shown

Hi all

OS- Ubuntu 16.04 64bit
Blender 2.78a

Installed on repo running;
$ sudo apt-get install blender

No particle button found (pls see attached photo)

Please advise how to fix it? Thanks

Regards
satimis

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You have currently a curve object selected - you can’t add a particle system to those.
Convert “Circle” to mesh with Alt-C.