ubuntu when Ubuntu Software Center is dead

[Scott Elcomb]

If you prefer a GUI app there's also synaptic.

(If it's not installed already, you can install it using Matt's
instructions - ie: sudo apt-get install synaptic)

Launch with: gksudo synaptic


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Matt Price <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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