Greetings! <div>On 8/2/05, Derek Broughton <<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Brian Walker wrote: > On 7/29/05, Pushparaj Shetty <<a href="mailto:prajshetty@gmail.com">prajshetty@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> 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. >> > As an experienced user you will, of course, have tried synaptic? > 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. :-( -- derek </blockquote> </div>Basically it is "horses for courses" - I used to avoid synaptic, but got into dependency troubles with good-old apt-get install and non-standard software installations. Aptitude is whatI generally use though. The OP seemed to be asking a newbie question, and for him I think synaptic is probably better. Brian