On Monday 17 April 2006 21:40, Don Gould wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Monday 17 April 2006 20:39, Don Gould wrote: > >>WARNING: You should be aware that I'm still a bit green about this > >>stuff as well. I may have made mistakes. I have spent time spelling > >>this out so that others can correct my errors if I've made them. > > > >Would it not be better to add http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/download/ > >to the list of repositories and use the facilities offered by apt-get? > > I don't know. Would it? Yes, if there's one thing I have learnt over the years it's that it is foolish to not use your distributions package management system, provided it works ( & they mostly do these days ). Doing so is an invitation to enter Hades via the 'Gates of Chaos'.
> I don't know how that works. I also don't > know how you edit the repositories list? # sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list > Would this be further complicating the issue? Yes, but it really is worth it. > B isn't sure how to find the command prompt in ubuntu yet, I suspect > telling him to edit a source.list might be pushing it? http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/ubuntu/install.html In particular: http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/ubuntu/install.html#3 He appears to be sufficiently intelligent to be able to learn how to cut and paste from an e-mail to a command console and push the return key. If he cannot do that he should not be 'allowed out after dark' just yet. > That would make life easier than having to run dpkg? Thou you'd still > have to run apt-get... or could it be done using the gui tools? > > So many questions and I can't reboot my desktop into ubuntu right this > second. :) Looks as if I'm going to have to get Ubuntu on my other drive, and I've given all the Kubuntu disks away. :-( Every single one. I'm going to wait until the Dapper Drake is airborne though. Could some real Debian / Ubuntu guru take over at this point please? -- CS
