Who says elephants can't dance
by Volker Weber
Adding APM support to Ubuntu was pretty easy. Just add "apm" to /etc/modules. There you go.
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Welcome to the fascinating "apt-get install" world...
is that the way you add it?
No, it isn't. I know you want to sell me in apt-get, but adding a line to /etc/modules is way easier with
sudo echo apm >> /etc/modules
'modconf' is also a nice and simple text frontend for it. But I don't know if it's included in Ubuntu.
Hard to loose old habbits... :-)
But you are probably right. Qquick and easy, well done.
Glad you enjoy using Debian/Ubuntu anyway
I don't think it is even possible to make this modification with apt-get.
Volker, you should have more trust in apt-get :-)
Alternatively, you can use the guy interface to aptitude, synaptic-->find-->apmd-->mark for installation-->install
Done! Isn't that nice?
BTW you might want to update the repository addresses in sources.list prior to do all the above in order to find the packages you want.
But also this can be easily done with Synaptic
From the APMD package note:
"...Debian kernels are built with APM support but it is disabled by
default. You need to boot the kernel with the "apm=on" option if you
want to enable the driver. (You may need to add this option to your
lilo command line."
Sorry, my bad." And you were right. :-)
apt-get install synaptic
In Gnome2, as ordinary user, Applications -> System Tools -> Synaptic Package Manager
Take your time, check out the features, you can even include multiple releases in sources.list and prefer one. I.e. I have testing, unstable and experimental in my sources.list, prefer testing and still got firefox 1.0 installed without any library and dependency hassles.
/k
