On 2/26/07, Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > Upon reflection, I'm having to give up the search for a curve-fitting program which is simple enough for me to use. This is a major disappointment with Ubuntu - I have downloaded Di and Inkscape using the Add/Rremove facility with ease and joy - just a pity neither would do what I need to be done. It seems to me that Ubuntu is a bit of a con in that much of it is lovely and easy to use, a positive joy, then all of a sudden life gets very serioius and one has to be a bit of a programmer to get the things that one wants. I have spent a couple of days looking around the web, there are quite a lot of Linux packages which contain curve-fitting but contain much else and are too complex for me. Curvefitting is not an especially rare facility to want and I feel a bit let down by those others who have given me the impression (not always here in this Ubuntu list I must quickly add) that all will be sweetness and light. Open Office is another case in point where it promises to plot graphs but actually fails to do it properly. I feel guilty having taken up other people's time to no avail. Thank you everybody. > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
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