[wellylug] ubuntu help....

[Grant McLean]

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 18:25 +1200, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> Brent Wood wrote:
> > Appreciated.... that's almost as easy as RPM's when you know how :-)
> 
> If you are going to download .deb packages and install them yourself
> manually without all the dependencies solved for you, you may as well be
> using some horrid RPM distro.

Agreed.  But if you do end up in possession of a .deb that you want to
install on your Ubuntu system then here's a handy tip: right click on
the file and select Open with "GDebi Package Installer".  The snazzy
little GUI thingy that pop's up will resolve the dependencies for you
via apt.  Of course I'm running Gnome, presumably KDE provides similar
functionality.

By the way, if any of you are using Gnome and SSH then you might like to
take my SSHMenu for a spin:

  http://www.mclean.net.nz/ruby/sshmenu/

Cheers
Grant