I installed only the base debian package and during installation I did not select any of GUI window manager, laptop, or system utilities.
So basically I'm running debian from command line, now I want to set up a GUI just for desktop. For this I tried installing gnome-core by
apt-get install gnome-core
But is shows gnome-core as a 400MB archive, is the core package so big?
On Lubuntu how do I install znses, i already updated Synaptic and then entered this on the terminal: sudo apt-get install zsnes and I came up with this error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information...
i've been using ubuntu9.10 since 1 month.
But recently due to some error in installation of google desktop(package is partially installed),The package installer is giving the error that there is already a
program running in software center/synaptic package manager,so it cant install any package.
What is dpkg ?
it’s a package manager for Debian system, and working on other distributions built from Debian system. Used for installing and Removing packages on you system. as same as using synaptic package manager on Ubuntu, but the difference that dpkg using for individual package without installing extra dependencies for this package.
Synaptic Package Manager 0.80 has been announced on December 20th, by its author, Michael Vogt, bringing a few updates, fixes and some code cleanup.Michael Vogt, the lead developer for APT team, for Debian, and a software developer at Canonical, has deemed the Synaptic 0.80 package to be unstable, at least for now.Highlights of Synaptic 0.80:• The Homepage Field has been added to debian/contr
Many of us who regularly use terminal often have used ‘dpkg‘ for program installation and removal. ‘dpkg’ is basically a debian package manager that is used to install/remove Debian packages in Ubuntu as well as in Debian.
I needed to uninstall firefox 19 which was installed during the installation of Ubuntu 12.04, in order to downgrade the version so that I could install firefox add-on compatible to lower versions. But now my system's broken.
I tried to update, or upgrade, apt-get -f install, synaptic installation, or re-install firefox,... but to no avail.
What Is Ubuntu?
By Roharme D
Ubuntu is an easy version of Linux. It is not windows,but it is almost user friendly like windows. No all applications have graphical interface. Many applications force users to use commands to run them.Commands are mandatory to work with Linux and Ubuntu is not an exception.
I need the package rar. But I get this error whenever I try to install it:
Reading package Lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information...