Ubuntu Starting Questions

[NoOp]

On 05/21/2009 03:31 PM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> It has been a long while since I used Linux for everyday tasks. I have  
> a new netbook running 9.04 UNR.
> 
> I have a few questions:
> 
> 1. How do I install Development tools? GCC, C++, make, autoconf, etc,  
> etc.? I know apt-get, but is there a package that fetches/installs  
> everything?

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/build-essential

> 
> 2. What about the latest Java from SUN? I could get from java.sun.com  
> I suppose too.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=java

I suppose it depends on what java you want, but the JRE is:

$ apt-cache policy sun-java6-jre
sun-java6-jre:
  Installed: 6-13-1
  Candidate: 6-13-1
  Version table:
 *** 6-13-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

One of the easiest ways to get things going is to open Synaptic
(System|Administration|Synaptic...) and then:

Repositories|Ubuntu Software|-click all|Third-Party Software|-click
http://archive.canonical.com/ jaunty partner| then Close and click the
'Reload' icon. That will bring in just about all that you currently need.

Additional information regarding repositories is here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/
  https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/index.html
   https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/add-applications/C/index.html
<https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/add-applications/C/default-repos.html#default-repos-main>

https://help.ubuntu.com/community
[search box is Google, so same type search methods apply]