ubuntu when Ubuntu Software Center is dead

Matt Price moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 20 14:01:26 UTC 2012


oops, I forgot to say, all of those commands should be executed as root:

sudo apt-get install PACKAGE

et.


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Matt Price <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Maybe you know this already, but the ocmmand line will still work:
>
> apt-get install PACKAGE
>
> to install a package, and
>
> apt-add-repository REPOSITORY-ID
>
> to ad a PPA or other repository
>
> dpkg -i PACKAGEFILE
>
> or
>
> gdebi PACKAGEFILE
>
> to try to install a package that you've downloaded manually.
>
> Does that help
>
> matt
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> My last message discussed here to my positive use was about fan problem.
>> Thanks. I learned something.
>>
>> Now, for a reason that I have no understanding of.  The Ubuntu Software
>> Center does not work, it crashes.
>>
>> Can I still install packages there? How?
>>
>> I have problem with siggen (which worked some time ago). Now it reports that
>> there is no /dev/dsp
>>
>> What a s***t.
>>
>> I guess I can still install a debian packages. But How?
>>
>> I am on one side still by inertia interested in knowing how the system
>> works, however, first of all, now, I care more how to DO the system to work,
>> how to use it.
>>
>> http://nanolab.gu-unpk.ru/zbigniew/
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>> zb.
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