run synaptic

O.K. I might be missing something, but I followed the link and I am still confused.  I see some web addresses, but not how to add the repositories.  Can someone post a step by step on what to do?

I am particularly confused by this:

"EDITOR NOTE: You can add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list"

I won't have my EEE until tomorrow, but I would like to learn how to add a few games and stuff before I get it.  Thanks in advance to all of those that are patient with the Linux newbies!

Can you I use this method to install an action type game or some strategy games  that is fun to play? I am reffering to the method described by the first reply? Thanx.

I am a newbie and will like to know too.

Last edited by ElRazur (2007-12-24 8:03:49 am)

ElRazur wrote:

judland wrote:

Open up a terminal window (CTRL-ALT-T) and type:
sudo apt-get install mah-jong and press ENTER

Answer Y to the confirmation question and this should install a version of Mahjong for you.

What other good game can one install like this? Championship manager or something similar like a strategy based games or an action game?

Well, if you followed the process of adding Debian repositories to your sources list, you could get a list of available software by running synaptic.  In a terminal window, type: sudo synaptic and press ENTER.

This should launch the Syanptic package manager (it's a graphical front end to the apt-get installer).  Down the left hand column, scroll down to find the "Games and Amusement" section.  Click on it and in the column to the right,you'll get a list of games that's available to you.

Click on one of them and, in the window below, Synaptic will give you a short description.

To install something, click on the check-box to the left of the file name.  When you're done making your selections, click the "Apply" check box.

I followed the above instructions to install mah-jong. It seemed to work - but now how do I run it - how do I play the game?

mikejstb wrote:

I followed the above instructions to install mah-jong. It seemed to work - but now how do I run it - how do I play the game?

You'll have to launch the game via the terminal.  I'm guessing, but you'll most likely type mah-jong and press ENTER.

If you want to add it to the desktop as an icon (I'm assuming you're using the default Easy GUI), you'll have to do a few manual changes to the simplegui.rc script, as described here:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:customizeeasymode

Scroll down the page to the part that explains how to add new items.

Neil wrote:

"EDITOR NOTE: You can add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list"

You will need to edit sources.list, and add the details of the relevant repositories. You edit the list (which is a text file) by using:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and adding the relevant repositories from the wiki.

Then, save the file (Ctl + O) and exit (Ctl + X).

Then, update your package cache:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

.

I have copied the repositories list from the wiki, when I try to run the update it tells me there is an error on the lines I have copied and pasted. Any help?

Neil, I have the follwoing

deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701 p701 main
deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701/en p701 main
deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free
deb http://dccamirror.xandros.com/dccri/ dccri-3.0 main
deb http://www.geekconnection.org/ xandros4
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/eeepcrepos/ p701 m

A straight copy and paste from the wiki.

Sam

Neil,

That seems to help but when I run the Synaptic nothing come up. I get the message

"E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://download.tuxfamily.org p701/m Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/download.tuxfamily.org_eeepcrepos_dists_p701_m_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)"

Any suggestions?

Neil,

I have now removed tuxfamily then re run the update again. When I go into synaptic i now get:

"E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header"

any suggestions?

Re: "E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header"

I got that message after following the procedure for "pinning" & it turned out to be an extra space at the beginning of the first line.

I'm also looking for a mahjong game & have added the recommended repositories to synaptic but couldn't find mah-jong or gnome-games (which I heard has a good mahjong game) listed - only kmahjong which turned out to need some other library or file that looked iffy (something like libqtc102?). Wonder if I should try a debian repository from http://ruckman.net/tech/2007/08/17/eeep … ositories/ ?

I have the same problem with updating (either via add/remove software or via the command line), How does one find out the IP addresses for the various repositories?