[nflug] Ubuntu question

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

I had a similar problem recently. With the graphical interface, you need
to enable the advanced mode in order to see all the packages.

Also, some packages are not part of the totally free packages that Ubuntu
supports, so to install these ones you need to enable the universe
packages, and if you want to have non-free ones too, then you need to
enable the multiverse.

If you need more detailed steps on how to do this, let me know (I am away
from Ubuntu at the moment).

Note: I didn't check if mplayer is there.

Cheers,

TAA

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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Josh Johnson wrote:

> I just installed Ubuntu to check out what all the fuss is about. It's pretty nice, but how doesn the package management system worked? I thought that it had a system that figured dependencies. Like if I said "Install Mplayer" then it would install all of the the library dependencies for it and then install mplayer and add it to the menu. As of yet I haven't figured this out. I see it has apt-get. But "apt-get install mplayer" yields
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package mplayer
>
> I can find the package on their website, but I'm not certain where to put it. And would I have to do that for every dependency? Googling hasn't been much help. And I figured that the graphic interface (Synaptic) could do it. But I seem to be graphically challenged with this. What is the secret?
>
> -Josh
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