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Derek Broughton wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Brian Walker wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 7/29/05, Pushparaj Shetty <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:prajshetty@gmail.com"><prajshetty@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">dear sir/ madam,
I am user of ubuntu 5.04. I need to work with packages like latex and
xfig and xdvi.
Kindly provide me the instructions to download these packages.
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<pre wrap="">As an experienced user you will, of course, have tried synaptic?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Ack! Why? I've tried asking a number of people about this, but _why_
synaptic? What does it provide that I would find I couldn't live without?
I realize this is a predominantly Gnome-user list, so maybe you don't have
other GUI options, but for the full GUI KPackage seems much more useful and
for anything else it's aptitude. When I first tried synaptic, it had the
virtue of being really fast. Then they added more features until it got to
be as slow as kpackage. :-(
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Have you tried sudo apt-get install package?<br>
Just a guess.<br>
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-r<br>
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