help on installing packages on ubuntu

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:47:32PM +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
>On fre, 2005-07-29 at 16:55 +0530, Pushparaj Shetty wrote:
>> dear sir/ madam,
>> I am user of ubuntu 5.04. It is very good for internet and desktop applications
>> I need to work with packages like latex , xfig and xdvi.
>> Kindly provide me the instructions to download these packages in ubuntu. 
>> Thaking you
>> Pushparaj
>> 
>
>Take a look in synapic (System->Administration->Synaptic Package
>Manager) see <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto?highlight=
>%28repositories%29> on how to use universe and multiverse.
>
>latex is provided by the tetex distribution but only tetex-2 is in the
>ubuntu repositories. tetex-3 is MUCH better...

Is tetex-3 a packaging of LaTeX3?

Will it be included in Breezy?

>xfig is in universe
>
>I couldn't find xdvi though, use pdflatex instead.

xdvi is in tetex-bin (dpkg -S gave me that answer).

/M

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