Let’s continue our hayride with OpenSuSE. The last time we visited this operating system we took a look at the stellar YaST tool (see my article “YaST: Yet Another Setup Tool“). From within that tool you could easily access the YaST Software Installation tool for OpenSuSE. This tool is about as user-friendly as any of [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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The new Ubuntu Software Center
You may remember my mention of the Ubuntu Software Center in my article “Ubuntu Karmic Koala preview“. Well, Karmic Koala is now officially Ubuntu 9.10 and is on the streets. I have installed the release and am as pleased as I expected I would be. One aspect of 9.10 that I was most interested in [...]
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Adding Repositories to Synaptic
If you use a Debian-based Linux distribution then you probably use Synaptic. And if you use Synaptic enough you may have come across an application that it can not find. When you find that combination you will need to add repositories to Synaptic that will allow the system to find and install the application you [...]