[Bradford] Bradford Digest, Vol 11, Issue 3

[David Carpenter]

Sometimes it's not always easy to know what software you want!

Synaptic shows a great big list of things and sometimes the descriptions
are not that easy to follow.

I will often google for what I think I want, e.g. desktop publisher, and
add Ubuntu to the search, e.g.
desktop publisher Ubuntu 8.04

That gives me an idea of what to then look for in Synaptic.

This is definitely something worth covering for new people.

It should also be made clear that most people should be able to get on
without having to go to the terminal. I think people find it very off
putting. 

However a 'Don't be scared' and 'This is why it can be useful' guide
would also be useful...after all it can be a great way to get free help
from the community for example!

Anyway, a useful link to understand software installation:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware

Cheers
David

 
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 16:03 +0000, Wayne Hanley wrote:
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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
> 
> <snip /> 
> 
> 
> 
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