enabling extra repositories

GĂ©rard BIGOT gerard.bigot at gmail.com
Sat Oct 21 11:37:39 UTC 2006


Hi ,

 - binary is for directly usable packages. you don't have anything fancy to
do.
 - sources means that you have to 'compile' this sources in order to get
binaries.

If you just began in linux, don't try to compile. Stick with sources.

G.

On 10/21/06, smithveg <smithveg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to ubuntu and linux planform.
> I had read from an article say that i must 'enabling extra repositories'
> if i can not find what i need.
> In the article, it asked me to tick all the thing in 'binary'. My question
> is, why must binary, and not source?
>
> thank
>
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