I just set up a dual boot on my computer, and i am using ubuntu. my problem is that I have no idea how to, or the concepts behind, simple things like installing programs, compiling things, how WINE works or how to auto mount my other internal harddrive.

I've done a lot of googling, but everything that I've read is way over my head.

does anybody know any of the answers to my questions?


other than that though, this is great. looks better and is faster than xp, recognised my shared internet connection instantly which was nice, same with all my drivers

installing programs is easy, just go to add remove programs or use sudo apt get application name in terminal. or if the software isn't in any repositories google search for a .deb of it.

it should already auto mount your harddrives, i don't know how to fix that but you should be able to rightclick it and select mount a little extra work at startup but whatever.

wine works just like windows, right click an .exe select open with WINE, depending on your software you might have to tweak a few things but it's not hard just check out the programs page in the wine APPDB there should be detailed instructions there.

other than that i'd like to congratulate you on making the jump to an infinitely superiour operating system.

thanks for the help man. and yeh it seems pretty cool
lots to get used to though

hey, can you tell me where program files and system files are kept and stuff, so i know my way around?

Quote from: YoYoClock;1334021thanks for the help man. and yeh it seems pretty cool
lots to get used to though

hey, can you tell me where program files and system files are kept and stuff, so i know my way around?

program files are kept it file system>usr>bin unless you installed them somewhere else.

system files are all over the place i guess lol.

You can install packages also which can help your learning curve. A good place to learn about Ubuntu is on the actual website itself.

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-applications/C/index.html


When the new CCOS comes out we hope to have everything installed for you so complications like this don't arise.

Good luck.