Just installed Ubuntu, what now ?

[Derek Broughton]

Boyan R. wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:08:04 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>>> First of all, my sweex ISDN modem (Winbound w6692 chipset) doesn't work,
>>> and I'm affraid I can't do anything about that,
>> 
>> There may be.  I think ndiswrapper might work.
>  
> Wth is that ? I didn't even succed to find option of creating conection to
> my ISP. How can I start wvdial (I assume it can help me) ?

What does that have to do with anything?  Don't assume. Did you try
ndiswrapper?  I don't _know_ that it will work - if you don't have a phone
line, dial-up is unnecessary - but it might.  The ndiswrapper home page
suggests that it does, at least for some devices.
> 
>>> - I downloaded Konqueror - file:   krusader_1.70.0-0breezy0_i386.deb
>>>   How do I install it ? Archive manager can't unpack this file.
>> 
>> sudo dpkg -i krusader*
>> 
>> would do it, but (a) krusader isn't konqueror and (b) normally, when you
>> finish installing Ubuntu it should already be set up with the
>> appropriate /etc/apt/sources.list to be able to install packages via
>> Synaptic or aptitude.  If you actually installed Ubuntu, not Kubuntu,
>> then the above dpkg command is not going to be successful, because
>> there'll be a huge number of required dependencies which you don't yet
>> have.
>> 
>> sudo aptitude install krusader
>> 
>> would do the job, and get any necessary dependencies.
>  
> I meant Krusader, not Konqueror (but I can't manage to install it neither)
> 
> I went to console (ctrl+alt+f1) and found directory where I placed file:
> krusader_1.70.0-0breezy0_i386.deb
> Then I typed "sudo aptitude install krusader"  - some activity happened,
> looked like all is ok, but I can't notice any changes
> Then I typed: "sudo aptitude install krusader_1.70.0-0breezy0_i386.deb"
> and same activity again.

Why do you think that worked?  It would have told you:
 Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched     
  "krusader_1.70.0-0breezy0_i386.deb"
 No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.

I'm not at all sure what the first method would have said, but "success"
wouldn't have been part of it.

> 
> Did I maybe installed Krusader ? Where is it placed, I want to make
> shortcut to desktop or something like that
> 
> And talking about Synaptic, I've found it, but I can't figure out how to
> install anything with it and how to use Repository menu neither.
> 
> Notice that I can NOT access internet from Ubuntu (gnome)
> I downloaded files from Windows XP and transfered them to Ubuntu

Then work on one problem at a time.  If you install that .deb, nothing will
work because it requires a whole lot of KDE to be installed first.  If you
try to use aptitude or synaptic, you still won't get them because you're
not online.  As I told you - it will try to install the dependencies, and
you don't have them.
-- 
derek