How to find hoary compatible packages

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Sun, 2005-11-09 at 07:33 +0100, Shivakumar GN wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need a set of educational softwares and was looking
> for compatible softwares for hoary.
> 
> I tried downloading some of the packages from the
> below sites 
> ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/ubuntu/
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/
> but was not able to identify hoary compatible
> packages. Most of the packages that I downloaded and
> tried installing failed since the libraries were
> either absent or the ones present were of older
> version.
> 
> Is there any easy way of identifying the compatible
> softwares. What is the convention followed in putting
> the different packages under - 
>     * main/
>     * multiverse/
>     * restricted/
>     * universe/
> 
> thanks and regards
> Shiv

don't try to install packages manually.  Use a package manager like
Synaptic, which will deal with finding hoary-compatible applications for
you, and install all the libraries you need:
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SynapticHowto


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