hi james if you do sudo apt-get install synaptic you will get synaptic package manager in your system menu and from there you will get all the different coloured software of the rainbow. just mark for install and apply.
ash On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM, James Harkins <[email protected]> wrote: > So I downloaded the debian package from openoffice.org and (after some > digging) found a command in their pdf installation guide: > > sudo dpkg -i -force-overwrite openoffice.org*.deb > desktop-integration/openoffice.org-debian-menus*.deb > > And it says (drum roll please): > > zsh: no matches found: openoffice.org*.deb > > Sorry if it's not appropriate to ask here. But, a lot of web pages about > installing it are ubuntu-specific and don't necessarily translate easily to > the different guis in p:d (or lack of guis, for some things). > > I'm still not used to linux package systems yet. There is something to be > said for downloading a file, double-clicking it and having stuff happen to > install the software from there :) Or at least, being able to find > installation instructions on line that, you know, *work*. > > James > > > : H. James Harkins > : [email protected] > : http://www.dewdrop-world.net > .::!:.:.......:.::........:..!.::.::...:..:...:.:.:.:..: > > "Come said the Muse, > Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, > Sing me the universal." -- Whitman > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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