installing joe..

[Vram]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 16:17 -0500, Henry Ortega wrote:
> I am totally new to Ubuntu. I have been a Mandrake user
> for so long. I am trying to install joe (text editor) in my box
> and I have the ff question:
> 
> I tried 
> apt-get install joe
> and it tells me Couldn't find package joe
> I tried synaptic also and could not find anything.
> 
> So should I install from source?
> I can do that, but I wanted to know if there's a *package* way of
> installing 
> this that would make it easier to update in case. 
> I see different packages available 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23475
> 
> Would any of those packages work for Ubuntu?
> 
> Sorry for the very basic question. :)


Do you have universe turned on?

Can  you post 

/etc/apt/sources.list


Vram