Could Not find very basic packages using APT...

[Fawad Nazir]

Hi Dave,

I had simlar problems when i used to GUI following
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto.

I think i am missing some essential packages.

Which distribution do you recommend for kernel compilation and kernel
programming/development?

Regards,
Fawad.

On 5/1/06, David Symons <ubuntu at liberatedcomputing.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 07:18 +0500, Fawad Nazir wrote:
> > I am new to Ubuntu. I just installed Ubuntu-5.10-install-i386. I found
> > out that this is very basic distribution and does not have gcc, make,
> > glibc, ftpd type of packages in it.
>
> Hi Fawad,
>
> Installing the build-essential package will get you the main components
> for building software (including gcc, make and libc6-dev).  It and its
> dependencies are on the install CD.
>
> There are various ftpd's available (not on the CD though).  vsftpd is in
> the main repository and others (such as proftpd) are in the universe
> repository. See:
>     http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto
> for information on adding repositories so that you can use Synaptic to
> install these packages.
>
> Note that ubuntu is "linux for human beings", yes some of them want to
> compile stuff but probably not the majority :) .
>
> Cheers, Dave.
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Fawad Nazir
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