Re: [Pan-users] Re: Xandros 3.0 (debian)

[Travis]

---- Original Message ----
From: "Jim Reiss" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 13:13
Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Xandros 3.0 (debian)

> > > 2. From the command line execute "apt-get update"
> > >
> > > 3. From the command line execute "apt-get install pan"
> > >
> > > After you've installed the package you might want to comment out
> > > or remove the line from /etc/apt/sources.list.
> >
> > I appreciate your trying to help but what you wrote is "greek" to
> > this "non-geek".  On the Xandros desktop I don't see any "apt-get
> > update".
> Right.  You need to type it as the root user in a command line
> window. Like an MS-DOS Command Prompt window on Windows.  The root
> account can be thought of as being like the Windows Administrator
> account.

Xandros has an "administrator account".  How do I get to the "command 
line" from the desktop?
> If you need a graphical package manager look for something like
> Synaptic or KPackage, but really the command line is the easiest
> way to do this and certainly the easiest to describe.

Does that install with a double click?

I think I may have had unrealistic expectations for Linux.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington