URGENT HELP NEEDED!!! Internet and email on Ubuntu.

[David Symons]

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 19:27 +1100, Jeff Bailes wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 18:34 +1030, SMOK wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> > Thank you for all this info.
> > But what is 'sudo apt-get install bpalogin'?
> > Will it require any downloading? 
> > If so, what would it be?
> > And what "synaptic" is?
> > 
> 
> Synaptic is a graphical frontend to apt.  They both effectively do the
> same thing.  'sudo apt-get install bpalogin' will require downloading
> which is a slight problem if your Internet isn't working properly.
> 
> You can probably download it in Windows and transfer it to Ubuntu
> somehow. 

bpalogin is actually on every Ubuntu Install CD.  Even the Desktop CD
has a small repository with it included.  I helped someone get it
working in this thread (post #14 in particular):
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=233521&page=2

Robert, as I understand it, you only need bpalogin if you use Telstra's
"Bigpond Advance" cable service.

Cheers, Dave.
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David Symons
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