Repositories

[Laurie Bell]

Hi Alfred,
 I'm still trucking through on Ubuntu, everyday it gets better because I understand a little more. I lost Synaptic but managed to get it back with help from everyone. I was trying to get my login screen to be the same as main screen. I ended up with 4 screens,but managed to get it back.Still can't change the resolution on login screen.Just type in user and password,but can't see it or the options on login.
 Laurie

 UBUNTU - I am what I am because of who we all are.




----- Original Message ----
From: Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 8:40:50 PM
Subject: Re: Repositories

Hi Laurie:

There is nothing at Ubuntu.com. I found these products at
www.thelinuxstore.ca He had 3 Ultimate editions, one of which was a
gamers edition about $9.00 on a DVD. More than all the current Games in
Ubuntu are on it, plus a wide selection of other categories. It uses an
older form of Installing sort of reminiscent of the 4.10 era. It is
based upon 7.10. Shooters and others like Nexius, Saurbraten, Song Bird,
a radio listening program, and a Chat Relay Program and Open Arena, are
on it. It saves all kinds of time on Dial-Up, because all these type of
programs are about 250 megs and bigger to download. 

The DVD Version of Ubuntu has all the repositories on DVD's, even quite
a few of the upgrades. Older versions of this like 6.10 Worked real
great, because you didn't have to download hardly anything, you could
get the DVD's read, and named, and then use Synaptic to choose the
programs you wanted, and Synaptic would tell you which DVD to put in
next to get them. In 8.04 I found this did not work that well. I'm
trying to figure out how to get the DVD's Read, and listed in Synaptic,
perhaps in Terminal, because my Experience was not that good in getting
8.04's Synaptic to work, like this. I would get errors, like E: CD
failed to mount, if it was a DVD that was being put in. A CD would mount
OK. The Desktop shows the Icon of the mounted DVD, but Synaptic does not
see it. Synaptic, is set up to use the repositories on the Web, but not
set up that well to use the repositories on a DVD or CD. Again this used
to work in older versions, but I had some problems this time. Perhaps in
an upcoming version this problem will be fixed, again. High speed can
cost big bucks, and so the Idea perhaps was that if everything was
already on a DVD, then it would save years of Dial-up time. 

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurie Bell <lveeb at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Repositories
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Chris,
I didn't know that there was a Ubuntu DVD or Ultimate version. I have
Hardy running now,is it possible to get the extras that the DVD version
has?Is it just a bigger selection of programs?
Thanks 
Laurie

UBUNTU - I am what I am because of who we all are.


----- Original Message ----
From: Chris Powell <str8line at gmail.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 12:27:05 PM
Subject: Re: Repositories

I understand that but from either of the two links sent, the Ubuntu DVD
or the Ubuntu Ultimate versions of Hardy can be downloaded.  Both have
more software solutions than the CD version of the OS.  There is no
"torrent" or "iso" of the repositories directly as they are constantly
being updated so I forwarded the links that I did.

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
wrote:
        I believe that the original question was about downloading the
        "repositories" not the "distribution."
        
        Andrew.
        
        
        On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Chris Powell
        <str8line at gmail.com> wrote:
        > George,
        >
        > Good places for torrents of Linux iso's include:
        >
        > http://linuxtracker.org/   or
        >
        > http://distrowatch.com
        >
        > I use both on a regular basis and have built a collection of
        more than 400
        > iso's that I seed on a regular basis.
        >
        >
        > --
        > Chris Powell
        > London, ON
        
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