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Re: [LUG] Installing apps

 

On 08/06/11 16:14, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Jack Oley wrote:


Hi all,

I have a CD from the latest Linux Format mag, but can't install any of
the apps (I'm using Ub 11.04). The instructions say, enter dpkg -i
filename.deb into the CLI, but I'll be jiggered if I can establish the
file name..! I've looked into the various folders on the disc and
tried various file names, nothing works. I searched the CD for *.deb,
but nothing was found. What am I missing? Any advice gratefully
received. Thanks, group. Jack.

How did you search the CD?

Try this:

df -h

that'll tell you where it's mounted - probably under /media/cdrom0 or
something.

cd /media/cdrom0 (or wherever)

find . -name \*.deb

and see what it finds...

Gordon



If it's the latest DVD and if it works like Mint with Gnome it might be mounted under /media/LXFDVD146.

Doesn't seem to be many deb packages on the disc (excluding the Ubuntu and Kubuntu packages):

Games/Solumns/solumns_0.1-4.deb
HotPicks/Synergy/synergy-1.4.2-Linux-i686.deb
HotPicks/Synergy/synergy-1.4.2-Linux-x86_64.deb

You should also be able to double click on the deb files to install them (and just in case you wasn't aware, the x86_64 deb packages are 64-Bit).

Hope this helps.

Rob

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