On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Navneet Thillaisthanam < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Raghu! > > Regarding your inability to install some applications in Ubuntu, you might > need to uncomment some repositories in your sources.list file. Use the > following procedure to do it. > > - Open Gedit - Alt+F2| Type 'gksu gedit'. Open the > '/etc/apt/sources.list' file. > - You will find entries like the ones I've just shown below. > > *## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the > Ubuntu > * > *## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as > to > * > *## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in* > *## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu > security > * > *## team.* > *deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe* > *deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe* > *deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe* > *deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe* > > - You might have these commented out. Just uncomment these files and > reload your repo indices. > - You may do this entirely from the command line if you are comfortable > with it or entirely from the Synaptic package manager as well. > - Then you can browse through Synaptic to get VLC installed but you may > try 'apt-get install vlc' aswell. > > Regarding your project on NS2, I had downloaded the sources a long time ago > (early 2008) for some work while I was in CDAC but never worked on it. As > far as my understanding goes, it is a software that simulates a network. > I'm afraid I unable help you any further on this front. > > Regards, > -- > Navneet Thillaisthanam > > Hi Navneet , Thanks for your reply .. Raghu
