Lubuntu Software repository

[Colin Law]

On 8 February 2013 05:47, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I recently installed Lubuntu 12.04 on an ancient (circa 1998) computer.
> Pentium 2 with 384 Megs of RAM.  It seems to run reasonably well (actually
> better than expected) but there does seem to be few apps that I can use.
> There are the apps that come with the installation but a look in the
> software repository shows only the apps that were pre-installed.  No new
> apps seem to be available.
>
>    I was hoping to install Firefox and particularly Thunderbird because all
> he uses the computer for is email, light duty web browsing and some word
> processing.  Is there a version of these softwares that I can use with
> Lubuntu?

Go to Software Sources (don't know where this is on Lubuntu but if
there is a System menu it will likely be under there, or you can get
to it from the Update Manager) and see what sources you have enabled.
Make sure the CDROM is not enabled.

Colin