[SWLUG] Ubuntu - the fixings

[Steve Anderson]

Rhys Sage wrote:

> I've copied (via CF card) the RPM file for gnucash.
> How do I make it work on Ubuntu?

You don't. Ubuntu is Debian based, so you want a DEB file (unless you 
fancy messing around with alien in a console, which you don't).

You're making things several hundred thousand times harder for yourself 
by not plugging a network cable into it and just snagging the whole lot 
from the Ubuntu servers. Seriously. Otherwise what will happen is you'll 
find a .deb file, copy it over, try installing it (which is a 
console-based operation, "dpkg -i whatever.deb"), and it will list a 
whole load of dependencies which you'll then download, copy onto a CDRW 
or CF card, install one by one using dpkg -i, find more dependencies, 
repeat ad infinitum.

Apt, and its GUI frontend Synaptic, are here to protect you and your 
folicles from such madness. Hook up to the net, download what you need, 
disconnect. It's EASY =)

Now buy my t-shirts. www.twindx.com - Satisfaction isn't guaranteed, 
it's not even implied.

Steve