how to enable universe packages through black prompt

[Niels Larsen]

On Friday 07 September 2007 16:29:50 Niels Larsen wrote:
> 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 /etc/apt/sources.list file  (correction - sorry)
>
> You can also google for answers *humour*  :-)