On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 23:24 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:05:41 -0700 > Tim <[email protected]> dijo: > > >> So is Ubuntu Desktop where I want to be for this simple stuff or do > >> I want a server class version of Ubuntu? The splash screens for the > >> Ubuntu SW site says 1000's of programs, but the largeswt list I get > >> there is 267, big difference. > > >With any major Linux distribution, you'll have access to more or less > >the same set of software. Generally the only difference between > >versions of a distribution (and even different distributions) is the > >software that is installed by default and possibly what kinds of > >package management tools they rely on. > > With any fresh install of Ubuntu you will have very few packages > available. That is because they ship Ubuntu with most of the > repositories disabled. > > Go into System > Administration > Software Sources and enable the > additional repositories. You should end up with 25-30,000 packages. You > can also enable the repositories from within Synaptic Package Manager.
The other way to do it is direct, via the /etc/apt/sources.list file. The additional repos are there, just commented out. Basically, repos are in four categories (+ a few others) Main (what can be installed at first) Restricted (non-free software) Universe (Open source sw not supported by Ubuntu) Multiverse (non-free software, not supported by Ubuntu) For more info, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine In addition, I normally tinker with the actual repo URLs. The default URL IIRC (even though it's "us.archive.ubuntu.com") usually downloads direct from Ubuntu servers in the UK, which can be a bit slow. I normally switch that off to mirrors.kernel.org. (Last I checked, the PSU mirrors seem slow too, I think they have a slower pipe.) Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
