Help with installing proggies

[J Bickhard]

Okay, but my parents machines both run Winxp. Wait a minit, I could
just use the live disk! So I pop in the live disk, it connects to the
internet, I open up Aptitude, DL all the crap I want to onto my dads
flash drive, pop it in my real Ubuntu machine, install it, then erase
all trace of those files from the flash drive. This is where, in the
Guiness commercs, they would say "BRILLIANT!"

On 5/20/09, David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM, J Bickhard <jbickhard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Dependency is not satisfiable". What does this mean? I dl wine, and
>> get the .whatever install package, double-click it, and this message
>
> Looks to me that you have debs for Wine but not all the debs for the
> other programs that Wine relies on. Those are called dependencies.
> Often they are libraries the main program needs, but they could be
> other support files as well.
>
> This is where running aptitude install <package> is better than just
> downloading a deb by itself. Aptitude will pick up all the needed
> files and install them along with the package you really want.
>
> If you use 'aptitude show <packagename> you'll see a complete
> description of the package. Things listed under "Depends" are
> dependencies that the program needs. If you haven't installed them
> already (because some other program uses those same dependencies) then
> aptitude will fetch them for you and install them.
>
> Aptitude also has a download only function, which you could use for
> example to download all the needed files on your parents' computer,
> then put them on a USB stick and then install them later on your
> computer on a later time.
>
>
>
>
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