Software Installation Pains

[Balaji Damodaran]

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:50 -0600, Edwin McGuire wrote:
> New to Ubuntu, Last Linux distro I had was Mandrake 7.1
> anyways still learning.
> here's my problem.
>  
> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04
> Downloaded some files (Gparted,VirtualBox,Wine,WVDial,Debconf.) from
> the Web at the library, so far none will install.
> Location of files=
> /media/DAD'S THUMB/Linux/Wine/wine-dbg_1.1.26~winehq1-1_i386.deb
> If I Click on a file then package installer window opens then status
> says 
> 
> "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: wine (= 1.1.26~winehq1-1)"
> 
> Plus same here.
> 
> /media/DAD'S THUMB/Linux/modem/wvdial_1.60.1+nmu2_i386.deb
> 
> "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libuniconf4.4"
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks for any info.
> 
> Ed McGuire
> 
> Pueblo
> 
> 

Assuming that you can access internet from your system, please take a
look at the 'synaptic package manager' that will save a lot of effort
you do in "finding" and "downloading" files from the web.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

-balaji