'universe' component?

[der.hans]

Am 19. Apr, 2007 schwätzte Lynn David Newton so:

moin moin Lynn,

> Well, I downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 and installed it in a
> virtual machine on my Macbook Pro today. This is my
> first view ever of Ubuntu. And I must say -- sweet! I
> may be switching from SuSE on my primary machine, but
> not until I get a good look at the latest of that, too,
> in a virtual machine.
>
> I went to install a package with apt-get, and it tells
> me:
>
> Make sure you have the 'universe' component enabled
>
> Can someone tell me what that means before I jump into
> slime up to my neck?

Ubuntu by default only installs packages from it's main repository.

Universe is a repository of packages maintained by the Ubuntu community.

Multiverse is also community maintained, but includes non-Free Software.

> A couple of weeks ago someone suggested I try Kubuntu
> because it's based in KDE. I'm not heavily partial to
> either KDE or Gnome. I used Gnome for years until one
> day I installed some version of Linux and it wouldn't
> work for me, whereupon I gave up in exasperation and
> installed KDE, and have been using it ever since.

Kubuntu defaults to KDE. You can install KDE onto Ubuntu and get the same
thing.

You just need an .el to run Firefox from within emacs :).

ciao,

der.hans

> Things change. Neither the latest KDE nor Gnome look
> familiar to me from what I've used before, and as far
> as I'm concerned a DTM is just a DTM. All I really need
> on a Linux system is (X)Emacs, terminal windows, and
> Firefox, and I can do 90% of what I do on a computer.
> The rest is just glitz. But I really like the simplicy
> of the Ubuntu interface.
>
>

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