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Simon Robert writes: > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:06 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: >> jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> > Rob Beard writes: >> >> jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > one, perhaps the, greatest differences between a linux distro and other > well known operating systems is that software comes from a repository > specific to the distro. Sorry if I'm teaching a granny to suck eggs so > to speak. > > There are very few occasions where you need to do anything but fire up > synaptic, particularly with ubuntu which has pretty much every > application you could want in the repositories. > > There is a good article on this at > http://wiki.eeeuser.com/guidebooks:how_linux_software_installation_works > > It took me a while to figure this out when I started to use linux, > resulting in many frigged systems and hours of wasted time. > > Should you need a list of ubuntu repositories I'd be happy to mail you > the contents of my sources.list file. I think it has all the standard > stuff, along with the media ones needed for codecs etc. > > Once again sorry if this condescending and you are well aware of all > this. > > Simon > ..I guess it's a case of, I know this but it's no second nature. I ran Debian for a while and the way of using the repositories did begin to sink in. I have even looked into some really good alternatives for some music programs that I thought I needed which only ran on WIndows. THe last 6 months of using Vista have put me back into old bad habbits... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html