Lubuntu Software repository

[Colin Law]

On 8 February 2013 19:31, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 04:50 AM, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:47:37AM -0500, Bill Stanley 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?
>>>
>> You can install anything you want from the standard Ubuntu repositories,
>> it's just that Lubuntu hasn't installed a GUI program for adding
>> software.
>>
>> However the command line utilities for adding software *will* be there,
>> so to install firefox you just use the command line:-
>>
>>      sudo apt-get install firefox
>>
>> If you want a GUI app for adding software then the one I know is
>> synaptic:-
>>
>>      sudo apt-get install synaptic
>
>
> The Lubuntu installation already has the synaptic GUI installed.  I tried to
> use that and all that it reported that was in the repository was the
> software already installed on the computer.  Maybe the problem is in setting
> up the repository location?  Can anybody tell me where to look for and
> change (add to) the repositories?  Also there is a menu item called GDebi
> Package installer.  Is that another version of synaptic?

Did you check the software sources as I suggested?  That determines
where it looks for s/w to install.

>
>
> By the way, I tried to install firefox using apt-get and it failed giving
> the following error message:
>
> E: could not get lock /var/lib/dpg/lock - open (11: Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory ( /var/lib/dpkg/) is another
> program using it?
>
> Maybe the problem to the inability to get a lock ti because the Update
> manager was active?  I'll try later after it is definitely done.

Yes, that was probably because update manager was active.

Colin