Hi Alexey,
The
$ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
command brings up the called file in the terminal window. My problem now
is, that I cannot figure how to edit it & then save it? (yikes, seems
like it should be so simple! & probably is :-[ ). There is no save menu
option in the terminal window (that I know of...(?)). I did something
like this before, only it called up the text editor (I think it was
something like gedit... <something, something>), then saved it (this was
to configure my modem when I first started using Ubuntu /last year/).
Henry
Alexey Beshenov wrote:
> On Friday 03 October 2008 21:47 you wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks for reply.
>>
>> But when I do apt-get install for maxima (etc.) I get an earlier
>> version... ((5.13) than I have installed currently ( v. 5.16.3,
>> though presently, I have an earlier version of wxmaxima (0.7.1)
>> from the 'add/remove' program, I'm inquiring about installing v.
>> 0.7.6, & for this I need wxWidgets).
>>
>> If there really is another way to go... this would be nice to know.
>>
>
> I'm sorry, it seems that I've skipped your first message.
>
> The straightforward way is to build everything from the sources, i.e.
>
> $ ./confugure
> $ make
> $ make check
> $ sudo make install
>
> or something like that.
>
> If ./configure fails, then you should check its output for missing
> libraries and install them (make sure you have libfoobar-dev).
>
> As for /etc/apt/sources.list, you just need to become superuser,
> use something like
>
> $ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
>
>