Could Not find very basic packages using APT...

[David Symons]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 07:18 +0500, Fawad Nazir wrote:
> I am new to Ubuntu. I just installed Ubuntu-5.10-install-i386. I found
> out that this is very basic distribution and does not have gcc, make,
> glibc, ftpd type of packages in it.

Hi Fawad,

Installing the build-essential package will get you the main components
for building software (including gcc, make and libc6-dev).  It and its
dependencies are on the install CD.

There are various ftpd's available (not on the CD though).  vsftpd is in
the main repository and others (such as proftpd) are in the universe
repository. See:
    http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto
for information on adding repositories so that you can use Synaptic to
install these packages.

Note that ubuntu is "linux for human beings", yes some of them want to
compile stuff but probably not the majority :) .

Cheers, Dave.
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David Symons
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