synaptic installer guide (Re: Loading Maxima

[Philippe Landau]

 >>>I just downloaded maxima-5.9.1-1.i386.rpm from the source forge site.
 >>>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933&package_id=4960&release_id=270236
 >>>Is this the right download for Ubuntu?
 >>Hmm, why no try maxima from the Ubuntu repositories?
 >>(apt-get install maxima)
> I guess I do not understand the Ubuntu repositories.
> I thought they were accessed by the Synaptic Package Manager.  I turned
> all repositories on in the Synaptic Package Manager window. I looked
> under mathematics and a few others where I thought it would show up and
> it was not there. So I guessed it was not in the repositories.
> How do you know what is in the repositories if they don't show up in the
> Synaptic Package Manager?
synaptic is a first attempt at a package manager.
it is still lacking a proper sources manager.
the best description of good sources for ubuntu is here:
Unofficial Ubuntu 4.10 Starter Guide
Revision: 2.5a (Last updated on 3rd February 2005)
http://ubuntuguide.org

kind regards     philippe