about installing packages

Rogelio Nodal rnodal at pegasus.rutgers.edu
Tue Aug 2 16:16:12 UTC 2005


Derek Broughton wrote:

>Brian Walker wrote:
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>>On 7/29/05, Pushparaj Shetty <prajshetty at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>dear sir/ madam,
>>>I am user of ubuntu 5.04. I need to work with packages like latex and
>>>xfig and xdvi.
>>>Kindly provide me the instructions to download these packages.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>As an experienced user you will, of course, have tried synaptic?
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>Ack!  Why?  I've tried asking a number of people about this, but _why_
>synaptic?  What does it provide that I would find I couldn't live without? 
>I realize this is a predominantly Gnome-user list, so maybe you don't have
>other GUI options, but for the full GUI KPackage seems much more useful and
>for anything else it's aptitude.  When I first tried synaptic, it had the
>virtue of being really fast.  Then they added more features until it got to
>be as slow as kpackage. :-(
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Have you tried sudo apt-get install package?
Just a guess.

-r
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