It's been a few weeks, but I have a little time today so I'm attacking 
this, again.

On 04/02/2012 04:04 PM, Tim wrote:
> Hi Dick,
>> Once in awhile I have some time to experiment. Today I'm trying to
>> install freewrl on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine. I have a .deb file
>> (freewrl_1.22.101_i386) which I got from:
>>
>> http://download.tuxfamily.org/myosotis/freewrl/package/lenny/i386/
> Normally it isn't recommended to grab just any .deb off of a web site
> and try to install it.  That is because it may be built for some
> version of Debian or Ubuntu that is not the same as what you are
> using.  You *can* do it, but it is one of those things you do only "if
> you know what you are doing".
>
<...>
> Instead, try running:
>
>    sudo apt-get install freewrl

E: Couldn't find package freewrl

I decided to Google freewrl and have a look in the various freewrl list 
archives. The most recent post shows some promise:


http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=COL120-W625BDBBF43F65C9FF975DFB63D0%40phx.gbl&forum_name=freewrl-develop

It shows that the poster is using lubuntu 12.04. I'm still on Ubuntu 
10.04. Rather than put a lot of time into getting freewrl running on 
10.04, I'll wait until I've installed 12.04 and then follow his 
exploits. I should have some time next week to start -- which means I 
probably will have some time in a month or so. :-)

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens


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