Installation of Educational Packages

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 12/10/05, Asif Lodhi <asif.lodhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I want to give a Ubuntu 5.10 CD to my nephew who is studying in 4th
> grade.  On Fedora Core 3, I have some educational packages but I think
> (I do _not_ really know - I am not sure) that those educational
> packages are only for KDE.
>
> Is there any way I can download the educational softwares _separately_
> and install them on his Ubuntu computer without using _any_
> net-connected automatic download/install facility.  Will I have to do
> ./configure/make/install?

just install the meta-package edubuntu-desktop in your favourite
update tool (synaptic,  apt-get, etc)  in your Breezy installation. 
The end result will be close to installation of edubuntu
(http://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuInstallNotes)

> I didn't find gcc on my 5.10 distribution.

you need to install the meta-package "build-essential" to install gcc
and a bunch of other things needed to compile applications from
source.


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Daniel Robitaille