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Archive: Basic Tip

Installing packages on ubuntu

Posted on 07 August 2006 Comments (4)
Tags: Basic Tip, Podcast

Hi, this week I some packages using the terminal window and “apt-get” command. I also went through using the default add/remove package manager and Synaptic package manager. I also have a link for instructions on how to install .deb, .rpm and, .tar files:

http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/

Here is the link for the first Ubuntu billboard and the link for the surprising news about preinstalled version of SUSE Linux (SLED 10).

Oh, and in case you couldn’t follow what I was saying in the podcast here is the link for the instructions for using a DNS cache