cannot install programs

[O. Sinclair]

Just a short one; you definitely must be connected to run these commands 
as they pick up from the internet repositories and not from your disk or 
  a CD

sinclair

Sam wrote:
> I'll give it a try, will this work without a connection to the internet? 
> I'll run the following commands: apt-get install make and apt-get 
> install module-assistant.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> From: Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net <mailto:daniel at rimspace.net>>
> To:  kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:42:56 +1000
> Subject: Re: cannot install programs
> Sam <theoneandonlysam at gmail.com <mailto:theoneandonlysam at gmail.com>> writes:
> 
>>  When I try to install a program, the Konsole always give me always an
>>  answer that the command make or another command I tried, doesn't
>>  exist.
> 
> Well, that would probably be because they are not installed on the
> computer.  The tools to build C software are not part of the basic
> installation of Ubuntu because they are relatively specialized.
> 
> What you want to do is install the appropriate packages.  For 'make' the
> package is, er, 'make.'
> 
> For everything else you can search for an appropriate package by using
> the "search the content of packages" option at
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/ to find which packages you need to install.
> 
> However:
> 
>>  I tried to install the following:
>>
>>  http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/WL-167g/Linux_1036.zip.
>>  It's a driver and a utility to get my USB-WLAN-adapter to work.
> 
> This is really not the best way to achieve your results.  Ubuntu ship
> the rt2500 driver source as an appropriate package, so the best way to
> get it compiled would be to install the 'module-assistant' package.
> 
> Then, run 'sudo m-a' in a shell and follow the prompts to have it
> install the software needed to compile drivers, then build and install
> the rt2500 driver for you.
> 
> That should require significantly less effort than trying to build
> software by hand.
> 
> Regards,
>        Daniel
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