First thing to do with the package manager on ubuntu is to include the universe and multiverse repositories. It will give you a lot more packages to pick from outside of what's officially supported by Ubuntu. Here's a great starter guide. http://ubuntuguide.org/ Click how to add extra repositories for the CL method. You can also easily add the universe and multiverse entries from the [x]ynaptic GUI. Going from memory here... Click repositories, edit, then there should be a couple of checkboxes for "unsupported software". Click those and it will add the repository entries for you.
I'm loving Ubuntu so far. The power and openness of Linux, the usability and streamlining of OS X. -----Original Message----- From: Jarrod Major [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:52 AM To: 'CLUG General' Subject: [clug-talk] Kubuntu trials So I got Kubuntu on my laptop last night. Or if you prefer Ubuntu "Hoary". After some help from Travis, I got my video resolution fixed up. Everything looks pretty now. Travis also walked me through some basic apt-get stuff. I got sshd installed as it only had the OpenSSH client installed by default. I was a little disappointed to find that OpenOffice was the office suite of choice. I am a KOffice fan and it seems sacrilegious to have KDE and no KOffice. I went into Kynaptic then and was pleased to see meaningful categories for the software in the Ubuntu repositories. After a quick search, KOffice was not to be found. After a Google search I found that it is not included... period. It sounds like they are considering putting it in but it's not there now. So am I stuck with installing this from source? Is there a better way? Also, Ubuntu's hardware detection didn't correctly configure my sound card... no surprise there, it's finicky on my ToughBook. Can anyone give me a heads-up on where I might look to find out how to configure sound in a Debian-based Distro? I have the proper device and settings recorded so I just need the config tool. Thanks in advance, and thanks again Travis! Jarrod _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
