Opera & Midnight Commander

[albi]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:56:20 -0800
John Montgomery <monashee88 at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I am in the process of evaluating Ubuntu and am impressed by some
> things and puzzled by others.
> 
> My browser of choice is Opera but I can not find it in synaptic. 

quite logical, the opera browser is closed-source software

> then went to the opera site and downloaded the version for Ubuntu but
> can find no trace of it in the fike system. What am I doing wrong?
> 

did you actually install it after downloading it ?
you probably need to do a : sudo dpkg -i ~/downloads-bla/opera-bla.deb

> Similarly my forst choice among file managers is mc but neither can I
> find it.
> 
> I think that I have all the repositories checked including universe
> snd multiverse.

mc is also (one of) my favorite filemanagers since years, it is
available ("apt-cache show mc" says it's in universe)

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