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Asked by Virgil Jones

 I am rather new to Ubuntu and continue to attempt to make my system work the way I want it to. On several occasions I have been instructed to go the synaptic package manager and down load restricted software. I can find no way to do this. There is nothing in synaptic that says anything about restricted software. In the June issue of Maximumpc in page 44 starts a really good atricle about Ubuntu and on page 48 they talk about restricted software and say to correct the problem go to the Applications menu and click Add/Remove, then change the Show: dropdown to read "All available applications". When I go there a Show dropdown is not found. Can someone help me out. I have searched and can find nothing that helps me with this.

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Justin Payne (neolithium82) said : 		#1

There is a link here to enable the restricted software repositories:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_add_extra_repositories

Just follow that guide and then you will be able to access a great deal more programs :)

Hope this helps!
Justin

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#2

Hello,

This page will help you with all the restricted formats on Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

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Virgil Jones (virgiljones38) said : 		#3

I appreciate your response to my question:, however, my problem is not resolved. The answer fro Hanuse leszek tells me to go to Application,clieck Add/Remove, In the top right , change the settings to All -Available Appliction. Then select other in the left Pamel and then select Ubuntu restricted extra packages. Click OK, this sounds great execpt Ubuntu restricted extra packages does not appear.

Justin Payne's answer tells me to go to System, Administration, and selcet Software Sourecs. Again sounds great but Software Sourecs is not an option in the list.

I do really appreciate your attempt to help. I will be on mission for a week and then I will get back to this. Virgil

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Justin Payne (neolithium82) said : 		#4

Since for some reason you're not able to use the Software Sources, you can follow the same guide I posted the link to above, by manually editing the sources.list file. It's a step by step walkthrough that has things set up so you can even copy and paste tehm into a terminal window.

Perhaps that might be a better solution.

Regards,
Justin

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#5

Are you using 6.06?
IIRC back then Software Sources was called Software Properties.
In any case it would help to specify your desktop manager (gde, kde, xfce, etc.) and version (6.06, 6.10, 7.04 etc.) in your questions.

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#6

If you are using Ubuntu Dapper (6.06), then you didn't follow the good part of my link (You should look under "Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10", NOT "Ubuntu 7.04")

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Best Virgil Jones (virgiljones38) said : 		#7

I am not sure if my problem is resolved or not. What I have done is gone to System-Administration-Synaptic Package manager-Settings-Repository and clicked Add. Went to terminal mode and pasted in the command thatr was in the instructions and now when I go to Synaptic Package Manager and Click All, do a search for Restricted the following appears,
Under ALL is Restricted and in the Package Box of the Window the following are there: AVM-fritz-Kernel-source, AXE, Chrootuid, cron, ed, fglrx-kernel-source, joe, libpan-chroot, and a lot of Linux-restricted-modules. The list then ends with wu-ftpc. Is this what I should have?

I loaded Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, that came with The Official ubuntu Book.

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#8

Hello,

I advice you to install the more recent version of Ubuntu: Ubuntu Feisty 7.04.
You can download it here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Then burn the iso to a disk:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

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Virgil Jones (virgiljones38) said : 		#9

Please consider this question closed. I will try and load ubuntu feisty 7.04 as Hanusz leszek suggested and start over. Thanks for all your help.