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Posted: Nov. 29 2003,03:03 QUOTE

I apologize for such a mundane question, but I am a relative newbie to this distro.  How do I install an application such as Abiword?  I assume I would use the tar version...download it, and then what...?  Can I use apt-get, and if so, what is the correct syntax?

Thanks for the help.  This is a great distro that has saved the life of an old laptop...a Toshiba CDS 225, 133mhx, 32mb, 2 gb hd.  Its jsut about the only distro that will work on here since the others are so bloated.  I want to keep it chugging along!


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Posted: Nov. 29 2003,08:31 QUOTE

sudo apt-get install synaptic

it installs synaptic, a graphical package installer, great app!
just run synaptic from bash


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Posted: Nov. 29 2003,12:20 QUOTE

Basically you just need to learn how to use apt-get, search the forum.
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Posted: Dec. 29 2003,02:36 QUOTE

Quote (Asmodeus @ Nov. 29 2003,03:31)
sudo apt-get install synaptic

it installs synaptic, a graphical package installer, great app!
just run synaptic from bash

thanks ... helped me a lot.
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Posted: Dec. 29 2003,06:27 QUOTE

FYI,

If you want to install the Synaptic installer GUI program and be able to use it by clicking on a desktop icon instead of having to execute it as user 'root' from the command line (sudo), try out my Synaptic install script.

It is located inside the following message post:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....2;t=122
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