Software Installation Pains

[Mohamad Faizul]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> 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
>
>   
sudo apt-get -f install