Software Installation Pains

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Wed, August 5, 2009 20:12, Mark C. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:55:35 +0530, Balaji Damodaran wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Without making the waters too muddy, don't the DVD versions of Ubuntu
> contain at least most of the more popular programs?  I thought that was
> the difference between the DVDs I keeping finding in LINUX magazines as
> opposed to the LiveCD version.
>
> mcm

Not really.  The main benefit is that you get a lot more languages on the DVD

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