how to add repositories

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 23:28 -0400, Doug wrote:
> I assume that there are files in repos other than the "official" one
> that synaptic knows about.  Questions:
> 
> How do I find out if a file I want is in some other repo?
> 
> How do I get that file from that repo?  Is there an apt-get install
> routine that will do it?  I guess there would have to
> be a repo name or something in the command.  Would apt-get find and
> install dependencies, or how would that
> be handled?

I just google using key words: <name of desired program> ubuntu
lucid .deb

It usually finds them for me, in that fashion. If the programmer is not
keeping up, (ergo using lucid as a key word) then I don't want something
crufty installed. Ric


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