Tar

[Res]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Justin Gruenberg wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:49 PM, kate <katie2009 at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> I have the tar file downloaded onto desktop and trying install with
>> terminal all I get is bad command.
>>
>> gnome-format-0.1.1.tar.bz2
>>
>
> Have you tried installing this from the package management system?  Do this:
>
> sudo aptitude install gnome-format


genius, there is no such package


~$ aptitude search gnome-format
~$

>
> Unless you really know what you want to do, you should install
> software from the official repositories from Ubuntu using Software

Not really, perhaps she wants to use a modern feature of a program that is 
not available in the version ubuntu distribute.


The thing about Linux is there is a little thing called 'choice' :)


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Res

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