Lubuntu Software repository - PROBLEM SOLVED

[Bill Stanley]

On 02/08/2013 04:00 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 02:31:24PM -0500, Bill Stanley wrote:
>> On 02/08/2013 04:50 AM, Chris Green wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:47:37AM -0500, Bill Stanley wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>     I recently installed Lubuntu 12.04 on an ancient (circa 1998)
>>>> computer.  Pentium 2 with 384 Megs of RAM.  It seems to run
>>>> reasonably well (actually better than expected) but there does seem
>>>> to be few apps that I can use.  There are the apps that come with
>>>> the installation but a look in the software repository shows only
>>>> the apps that were pre-installed.  No new apps seem to be available.
>>>>
>>>>     I was hoping to install Firefox and particularly Thunderbird
>>>> because all he uses the computer for is email, light duty web
>>>> browsing and some word processing.  Is there a version of these
>>>> softwares that I can use with Lubuntu?
>>>>
>>> You can install anything you want from the standard Ubuntu repositories,
>>> it's just that Lubuntu hasn't installed a GUI program for adding
>>> software.
>>>
>>> However the command line utilities for adding software *will* be there,
>>> so to install firefox you just use the command line:-
>>>
>>>      sudo apt-get install firefox
>>>
>>> If you want a GUI app for adding software then the one I know is
>>> synaptic:-
>>>
>>>      sudo apt-get install synaptic
>>
>> The Lubuntu installation already has the synaptic GUI installed.  I
>> tried to use that and all that it reported that was in the
>> repository was the software already installed on the computer.
>> Maybe the problem is in setting up the repository location?  Can
>> anybody tell me where to look for and change (add to) the
>> repositories?  Also there is a menu item called GDebi Package
>> installer.  Is that another version of synaptic?
>>
> What did you install from?  It seems like synaptic (or apt-get) onloy
> knows about the CD or whatever you installed from.

It seems that there was a problem in the install (this is a fresh 
install).  The update manager fixed the problem so I now have Firefox 
and Thunderbird.


Bill Stanley