On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:55:28 +0000 "Robin Menneer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/25/07, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use Synaptic! Search for gnuplot and then install it. Presumably, > > you've used Synaptic before to install stuff? > > This is the first time I've tried to use Synaptic Search and have > got as far as being asked for a package but failed to get the files > listed by you. I've got the .tar file into desktop but failed to link > it up with Synaptic. It's no good people raving about weaning > ordinary folk out of windows if they are subsequently let loose in > such unfriendly territory. >
A .tar sounds like the source for gnuplot which is not the easiest way to install software in ubuntu. An overview of the package management system is available at: https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/add-applications.html The gnuplot packages are in universe (community supported packages) rather than main, which is not enabled by default, the instructions for enabling this are at: https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/extra-repositories.html#id2580924 [snip] > > Having used DOS for many years, I am not afraid of the concept of > using terminal, but just of the brute force that i may mistakedly > misdirect in my ignorance. The warning in Synaptic *You can render > your system unusable* frightens the life out of me. I'd rather > abandon Ubuntu than foul up my machine. Thanks, Robin > That warning is about messing up your ubuntu install, it is very unlikely that anything you do in software could cause actual do damage to the hardware. ________________________________________________________ Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' -- they have 'arguments' -- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
