If you haven't gotten the unofficial cd for Ubuntu I would seriously recommend it.. Tons of things that are missing from the normal Ubuntu as well as the ability to enable all the repositories.. Ubuntu Starter Guide http://ubuntuguide.org/ is the best place to start and get it.. Sincerely, Judd Pickell On 7/12/05, Vaughn Treude wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:19, Bart Garst wrote: > > Vaughn Treude wrote: > > > (Excuse the weird format, I forwarded the message that bounced earlier.) > > > > > > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:46, Vaughn Treude wrote: > > > > > >>Hello everyone! > > >> > > >>I'm glad to report that I finally got that troublesome machine running > > >>(it was indeed the CPU, as someone suggested) and I got Ubuntu installed > > >>and running on it. I'm a bit new to the Debian side of the Linux world, > > >>and I'm having a little trouble with this apt-get stuff. > > >> > > >>Specifically: > > >>I need some version of emacs!!! > > > > Try `apt-cache search emacs | less`. > > > > This should give you a boat-load of results for emacs. One of which was > > 'emacs21'. > > > > Install that package with `apt-get install emacs21`. > > > > I'm using the debian repositories so your results may vary. > > > > If you are also using the debian repositories, you can search for > > packages via the debin home page: > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > > Thanks for the advice. If I add a repository to the list, how does that > work? (I figured out how to do this in Synaptic, but don't know what > will happen if I do.) Does it automatically search the new repository > site last? Or can I specify which one to look in first for a given > search? I'd probably have to do the latter, since imlib on ubuntu isn't > missing, it's just broken. Another question - how would I know which > Debian repository was compatible with Ubuntu 5.04?? > > Vaughn > > > > HTH > > Bart > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss