how to enable universe packages through black prompt

[ahmed fawzy]

Go to Settings - Repositories and make setup --> i thought here u are talking about graphical interface not black prompt , i didnot install the ubuntu yet
>
You can also add lines to /etc/apt/sources.list file  (correction - sorry)--> here i dont understand u is that a command as when i wrote it it gave me  "error command not found" so plz give me a command to write , as iam just a beginner
 and there is alot i dont know about the ubuntu yet. plzzz reply me.

and really thx for your help.

 
"Ahmed Fawzy Mohamed Ragab"
Computer Engineering Student
Computer Engineering department
Faculty Of Engineering - Cairo University
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----- Original Message ----
From: Niels Larsen <bqz69 at telia.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, September 7, 2007 11:32:07 PM
Subject: Re: how to enable universe packages through black prompt


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*  :-)



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