I'm about to install Ubuntu

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Originally posted by: hurtstotalktoyou
Okay, I enabled all available "repositories" (I think) in Synaptic. Still no sign of Ardour, and Audacity still doesn't work.

Repositories are online ftp or http servers full of packages that you can install software off of.

After adding entries for universe and multiverse you have to run a update to pull down the lists of packages aviable from those repositories.

When running apt-get update or doing the update from synaptic you can tell that you did it correctly because it will list the servers as it updates the package lists and show the 'universe' or 'multiverse' or 'restricted'.

After that then ardour and whatnot should show up.

Also Ubuntu has a online search so that you can see what packages are offered from which groupings..
http://packages.ubuntu.com/

Here is the official Ubuntu Wiki on how to do it.
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto</a>

(if you want to undo the gedit stuff you did then just copy the original copy you made back over the edited sources.list file, then run a update)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: hurtstotalktoyou
"touch: cannot touch ` /home/ben/Desktop/test_file': Permission denied"

I'm psychic.

 

[Nothinman]

Okay, I enabled all available "repositories" (I think) in Synaptic. Still no sign of Ardour, and Audacity still doesn't work.

Did you do an update after you added them? Packages.ubuntu.com confirms that Ardour is available in universe.

 

[Davegod75]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Okay, I enabled all available "repositories" (I think) in Synaptic. Still no sign of Ardour, and Audacity still doesn't work.

Did you do an update after you added them? Packages.ubuntu.com confirms that Ardour is available in universe.

sudo apt-get update

 

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Or hit the refresh button in synaptic.