Lubuntu Software repository

[Ric Moore]

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


I second that. Synaptic will handle all you want. Ric



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