Installation of Educational Packages

[Phillip Sc. Boegh]

Hello again.
>
> 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.
Look up the different names of the edu-applications and find out if they
are in the repositories or if your dare in debeanpackages. I have bad and
damaging experiences in Ubuntu installing tar.gz files and .configure make
and make install. Some typical KDE packages are very usefull in Gnome too
such as K3B, but sometimes they cannot work properly.

>
> Is there any way I can download the educational softwares _separately_
You just need their names and look up in aptitude or synaptic if they are
in there.
> and install them on his Ubuntu computer without using _any_
> net-connected automatic download/install facility.
Before that do
sudo apt-cdrom add
from your installation CD.
> Will I have to do
> ./configure/make/install?
I suggest you do not. I installed Midnight Commander Light and have
Segmentation errors in most new installed packages after that in Breezy.
>
> I didn't find gcc on my 5.10 distribution.
>
> The reason I get shivers at the thought of downloading EduBuntu is
> that I am on a dial-up connection and the Internet speed is not that
> good!
If you find some usefull packages - please report their names and links
back to the newsgroup.

Phillip