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[Donn]

Wolfgang,
> please excuse my missing experience with the console, 
>
No problem - we all start with missing experience!

> As I understand, I 
> have to open the console as sudo, and then enter:
>
It's like this:
1. Open a console (Alt->F2, type konsole, hit enter)
2. Now you are on the "command line" as yourself. If you want to do system 
stuff, you need to be in a temporary "root" mode, that's where sudo comes in. 
You type it as the first command, followed by stuff that must be done, so:
sudo apt-get install uudeview
3. It will ask you for your password, this is your user password (no need to 
remember a second one), type it in and hit enter.

There is a graphical (popup) version of sudo called kdesu that will also 
feature when you run things like Adept. It's doing the same kind of thing in 
the background.

> What do yuo mean please with the "Universe" repos and how shall I enable
> them?
>
Repos are servers on the net. They contain software. They are sub-divided (by 
folders) into various flavours of software that are variously supported or 
not, depending on the vagaries of that stuff. 
"Universe" is full of "unsupported" software. This means that if *buntu breaks 
(say you can't upgrade anymore), it's probably due to software you installed 
from Universe. That said, life goes on and we need software, so don't be 
afraid: break stuff, it's never *that* bad! :D

The best way I know to figure out what to do is to open and *read* your apt 
sources.list file -- taking special note of the remarks in the front of the 
file!

So:
1. Do it from the command-line:
less /etc/apt/sources.list
That will open a reader. Up/down/pgup/pgdown, Q to quit.
2. Do it from Adept gui: View -> Manage Repositories (on my version)
3. Ask around here or hit the forums.

For example, my list contains these lines at the top (under the comments):
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted 
universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted 
universe multiverse

> > After it's installed:
> > man uudeview
>
> I guess you mean still beeing in the console, right?
>
Yes. 'man' is short for 'manual'. It will show the instructions. You can also 
get help from the app by:
uudeview --help
You can also view the man-page in Konqueror, open it and in the address bar 
type: 
man:/uudeview
(If you use two slashes it doesn't work)

> sorry for beeing such a greenhorn ...
>
Hey, I don't mind the green, but that horn ... 

:D

Good luck, have fun! Welcome to Gnu/Linux.
/d
PS - Hope I haven't made any mistakes, but my experience is also an ongoing 
curve!