Software Installation Pains

[Mark C. Miller]

On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:55:35 +0530, Balaji Damodaran wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:50 -0600, Edwin McGuire wrote:
>> New to Ubuntu, Last Linux distro I had was Mandrake 7.1 anyways still
>> learning.
>> here's my problem.
>>  
>> 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
>> 
>> "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: wine (= 1.1.26~winehq1-1)"
>> 
>> Plus same here.
>> 
>> /media/DAD'S THUMB/Linux/modem/wvdial_1.60.1+nmu2_i386.deb
>> 
>> "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libuniconf4.4"
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> Thanks for any info.
>> 
>> Ed McGuire
>> 
>> Pueblo
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Assuming that you can access internet from your system, please take a
> look at the 'synaptic package manager' that will save a lot of effort
> you do in "finding" and "downloading" files from the web.
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto
> 
> -balaji

Without making the waters too muddy, don't the DVD versions of Ubuntu 
contain at least most of the more popular programs?  I thought that was 
the difference between the DVDs I keeping finding in LINUX magazines as 
opposed to the LiveCD version.

mcm



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Mark C. Miller