Lubuntu Software repository

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 02:31:24PM -0500, Bill Stanley 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?
> 
What did you install from?  It seems like synaptic (or apt-get) onloy
knows about the CD or whatever you installed from.

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Chris Green