[nflug] Ubuntu question

[pirrone]

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
>
>   
Josh,

The problem is the /etc/apt/sources.list file.  Uncomment the reserved 
and multiverse or whatever they're called archives to access the full 
16,000+ packages indexed.  This config file serves both apt and its 
graphical skin - synaptic.

Frank
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