Ubuntu Server 8.04

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Kaushal Shriyan
<kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 Server Edition on my system
> After the installation I found that most of the packages were not installed
> I did mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom  and then did cd /mnt/cdrom/pool/main and
> found that in the directory all the packages
> How can i install these packages on to my system

To manually install .deb packages you use the 'dpkg' command - try 'man dpkg'

Server OS's traditionally install very little - they expect you to
install only what you need rather than everything.

You might find 'tasksel' helpful - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel

Brian