[Bradford] Bradford Digest, Vol 11, Issue 3

[Wayne Hanley]

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Depending on your distribution you can use the gui package manager,
for instance Ubuntu uses Synaptic, you can find this in

system - administration - synaptic package manager

Simply start typing the name of the application you want to install
and when you find it mark it for installation and it will do it all
for you no need to go to the CLI (command line interface) if you don't
want to.

You can also add new sources for newer software from software sources
application again this can be found at

system - administration - software sources

For example if you want to install open office 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10
(interpid ibex) add both either via the software sources gui listed
above

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

or you can manually do that at via the cli by adding those lines to

/etc/apt/sources.list

Hope that give you a little more information!

Regards
Wayne

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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Matthew Callaghan <
callaghan.matthew at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry all for the lack of reply, I have been commandeered by family and
> work so was not able to reply.
>
> To cut it short, No :(
>
> I am however trying plan B, which is good anyway as it involves updating to
> Ubuntu 8.10.
>
> 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.
>
> Probably going to be tomorrow now as fireworks are calling tonight.
>
> Thanks all anyway for your advice and responses.
>
> 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.
>
> Just an idea.
>
> Thanks again
> Paddy
>

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