Software Installation Pains

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Mark Haney<mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> Edwin McGuire wrote:
>> New to Ubuntu, Last Linux distro I had was Mandrake 7.1
>> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04
>> Downloaded some files (Gparted,VirtualBox,Wine,WVDial,Debconf.) from the Web at the library, so far none will install.
>> Location of files=
>> /media/DAD'S THUMB/Linux/Wine/wine-dbg_1.1.26~winehq1-1_i386.deb
>> If I Click on a file then package installer window opens then status says
> First off, you shouldn't need to install packages manually.  Use apt-get
> install <packagename> to install them.  It's much easier to manage
> dependencies.  (And if you are a old Mandrake user it's the same type of
> package management as RPM uses, just a different program name instead of
> yum. (Or cooker in Madriva?  It's been a while for me.)

urpmi I think - at least back at 7.1 anyway.

Regardless, as others have pointed out, Synaptic is the way to go.

Note that if you *can't* get your computer on line,  you can pick what
you want in Synaptic, and then let it generate a list of files you
need to download.  See 'File -> Generate Package Download Script'

Brian
-- 
All you need to know about Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty -> gconftool -s --type
bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false