[Discuss] Installing software not in repositories -- Kubuntu 7.04

[Murray Strome]

noel at natnix.com wrote:
> Hi Murray,
>
> Out of the box, Ubuntu does not look in 3rd party repositories for updates.  
> You can increase the repositories here:
>
> System -> Administration -> Software Sources
>
> For your question about "conversation with su failed" yesterday, make
> sure your new users are in /etc/sudoers.  Plain Ubuntu uses sudo, I
> guess kubuntu does the same.
>
> --Noel
>
>
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:17:17AM -0700, Murray Strome wrote:
>   
>> I know that someone on the list posted a message some time ago (probably 
>> months) telling me how to best install software that is not in the 
>> repositories.
>>
>> For example, I want to install Acroread (preferably latest version), but 
>> when I search for it on the repositories, it does not seem to be there.  
>> I am sure I could go to the Adobe site, download and install it that 
>> way, but I am not sure if that is the best approach with Kubuntu or not.
>>
>> Similarly, the version of GIMP in the repositories is 2.x. I like a lot 
>> of the features which have been added to 2.3 but I think that if I 
>> download and install it following the GIMP Install instructions, it will 
>> not show up in the installed data base (synaptic or adept).
>>
>> Does anyone have any advice before I go ahead?
>>
>> Murray
>>     
In System on my installation, there is no : Administration (so no 
Software Sources)

In the Adept Package Manager, I don't see anywhere to select the 
Software Sources.

In the Synaptic Package Manager, there are a lot of repositories listed, 
but I couldn't find Acroread anywhere.

Thanks for the tip about /etc/sudoers.  I THINK the problem is that I 
just created the users using simple addgroup --guid <number for group> 
<name of group> and adduser --gid <number of group> --uid <number for 
user> <name of user>  which did not make the user a member of any other 
groups.  I have probably now given too many privileges to the normal 
user.  I also neglected to make "root" a member of any of the 
administration groups.  I have not yet tried again to reboot the system. 
Maybe it will work now, but I had some stuff I needed to do while things 
were working.

Murray