Alan DuBoff wrote: > [...] > So, one of the reasons I did want to install Ubuntu is that I have an > opensource library which one of the Ubuntu developers wants to putback to > Debian, and I am updating the name to prevent name collision with another > library. Ah, but Ubunto doesn't install automake/autoconf/libtool by > default, it's more user oriented. This is important, because I am similar > to you in the regard that I just want this command tool that I need to > use, and in this case I don't care about a GUI, but searching through the > update GUI, I can't find any of the tools to save my life. > > Lucky for me, I am pretty familiar with Debian, which Ubuntu is based on, > and can open a terminal, edit my sources.lst, do an apt-get update, and > pull the packages down I wanted...including KDE/Kubuntu, and other > stuff...but those pieces are not available through the default GUIs, > AFAICT, with a default install. It's always kewl to see a large bundle > like KDE pulling down 297 packages to install all it's glory... > > I have also found the default sources.list in Ubuntu to be too limited. You need to download and install Automatix2 separately to get a juicy sources.list. This IMHO shouldn't have been the case.
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