Where do I make these changes?

[Barry Young]

I need a little more detail on how to do this.

Is this the right link?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto

Examples with responses would sure be helpful...

Thanks!

Barry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Henson" <scotth at csee.wvu.edu>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Where do I make these changes?


> Barry Young wrote:
>
>> I trying to add a video capture card to my Linux box.
>>  I am a NEWBIE ..
>>  The documentation says to add these lines:
>>  <snip>
>
> Ubuntu already did it for you.  The docs your reading should tell you to 
> add those lines then build the kernel and install it.  You can safely skip 
> that.  Just skip to the part where it tells you to modprobe the modules(it 
> may not actually say that, I'm not reading the directions you are, its 
> just an assumption)
>
>>They also recommend a program called xawtv and they supplied a link.  This 
>>program source code needs to be compiled?  Do I do that with the cc 
>>command?
>>
>>Is this common for linux / unix programs? They supply the source?
>>
>
> You don't need to compile it from source.  Ubuntu provides many packages 
> so you should never have to do that.  All you should have to do is add 
> universe to your repository list(check the ubuntu wiki for directions) and 
> you should be able to install it with synaptic.
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