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Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Apr 20 00:15:29 UTC 2007


Scott Lockwood wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 11:33 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
> 
>> I'm new to Ubuntu-land. What are repos?
> 
> Take a look at /etc/apt/sources.list. This file defines what
> repositories you have setup to pull software from. If it's not commented
> out, the one near that top that defines a CD-ROM location you might want
> to comment. The rest are fairly safe to uncomment, unless you plan to
> install WordPress. :-) I KID I KID!

But since we're on the topic, what this really means is that only the
default software repositories are officially supported.

Matt Flaschen




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