[SWLUG] Ubuntu - the fixings

[Pete Prior]

> 
> At the moment, the system's offline. I intend getting
> it online but not immediately. I tried to enter "sudo
> apt-get install gnucash" in the terminal screen but it
> didn't like it, coming up with an error indicating it
> could not find gnucash. For simplicity, although it's
> on the desktop as a deb file, I also have a copy on
> sda1. I'm logged in as the sole user on my system. Is
> that a problem? Should I be logged in as root? I feel
> I must be missing something simple. 
> 

In accordance with my "3 strikes and you're out" practice, this is the 
last time I will repeat this.

rpms and debs are NOT the same as a exe file.  They are PACKAGES. The 
gnucash package will require around 35 different packages (that's 35 deb 
files) in order to work.
apt will happily do this all for you, but the alternative is to download 
all 35 or so package files manually (if you have no net connection for 
example).
apt will not be able to find gnucash until you add the "universe" 
repository to /etc/apt/sources.list as Gareth detailed in his previous 
email.  After running the commands Gareth said (namely sudo apt-get 
update and then sudo apt-get install gnucash), you will be presented 
with a big list of packages apt wants to install, ending with gnucash.

Either plug the machine into the net to let apt do this for you, or 
download all the packages by hand from somewhere like archive.ubuntu.com 
and copy them over to /var/cache/apt/archives/ and rerun the sudo 
apt-get install gnucash command.

Pete