how to enable universe packages through black prompt

[Niels Larsen]

On Friday 07 September 2007 17:33:14 ahmed fawzy wrote:
> hello
> i have a problem during installtion of ubuntu , and i want to enable
> universe packages to install cabextract when i write this:
> "sudo apt-get install cabextract" =>tell me  "Couldn't find package
> cabextract". so unverse packege must be enabled plz tell me the code to
> enable it plzzzz thx
>
Install synaptic.

Go to Settings - Repositories and make setup

You can also add lines to and /et/apt/sources.list file

You can also google for answers *humour*  :-)