-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Depending on your distribution you can use the gui package manager,<br>for instance Ubuntu uses Synaptic, you can find this in <br><br>system - administration - synaptic package manager<br>
<br>Simply start typing the name of the application you want to install<br>and when you find it mark it for installation and it will do it all<br>for you no need to go to the CLI (command line interface) if you don't<br>
want to.<br><br>You can also add new sources for newer software from software sources<br>application again this can be found at<br><br>system - administration - software sources<br><br>For example if you want to install open office 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10<br>
(interpid ibex) add both either via the software sources gui listed<br>above<br><br>deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu</a> intrepid main<br>deb-src <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu</a> intrepid main<br>
<br>or you can manually do that at via the cli by adding those lines to <br><br>/etc/apt/sources.list<br><br>Hope that give you a little more information!<br><br>Regards<br>Wayne<br><br><snip><br><br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>
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-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Matthew Callaghan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callaghan.matthew@gmail.com">callaghan.matthew@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Sorry all for the lack of reply, I have been commandeered by family and work so was not able to reply.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>To cut it short, No :(</div><div><br></div><div>I am however trying plan B, which is good anyway as it involves updating to Ubuntu 8.10.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hopefully this will enable my PC to detect a new device when it is in. Which from some comments seemed quite surprising to some that it didn't.</div><div><br></div><div>Probably going to be tomorrow now as fireworks are calling tonight.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks all anyway for your advice and responses.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing that i have thought of from this, for the next meeting. For some, like me, even something like installing is different from windows. I have installed some programs such as Geany the usual (windows way), but when it comes to command line it is all alien at the moment so it may be worth while coming up with a newbie cheat sheet or something.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just an idea.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again</div><div>Paddy</div></blockquote><div><br><snip /> <br></div></div><br>
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