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Well Jerry, it means just exactly what it says - for instance I went to sourceforge and tried downloading a couple of games, one of which (FreeCell) came back with a message box that said it wouldn't download an apt game (or some such wording) in other words, I couldn't download it! When I did download a freecell game, I couldn't find it using 'find' so I used 'locate' and that was the output in the terminal. I don't like synaptic, or the package managers, I prefer wget if I'm downloading from a website and apt-get if I'm downloading from the repositories. That's the way I was taught in years past, and so now that I'm back to using Linux, that's the way I prefer to do it nowadays. If that's a problem, all you have to do is say so. I guess I'll just have to figure out these things on my own if it's going to cause heat on the forum. I'll try not to ask anymore dumb questions .... Thanks.Jerry3904 wrote:This makes no sense to me:
--What does "qupzilla won't download games that use apt" mean? I'm sorry, but do you understand at all how packages are handled?
--Why do you show a list of images? What does that have to do with the question I don't understand?
My advice: read the Users Manual Section 5! You generally get and install packages with MX Package Installer or Synaptic. Once installed, they show up in the menu.
Stevo - I had aisle riot, and deleted it ... I didn't need a bunch of games that are a waste of space. I just wanted Freecell!Stevo wrote:Please, when you ask for help, help us help you by providing more details of what you did, such as providing links. I suspect you are still using the Windows model of getting software from websites, and Linux versions there are very often just the source code, not compiled, ready-to-run programs.
But in the case of gnome-freecell, that's one in a collection of GNOME solitaire games already in the repo as the aisleriot package. I know the name is not intuitive, but you can search for "freecell" in the Synaptic package manager and it will show you that.
See my answer to Stevo, ThanksJerry3904 wrote:That game is installed by default, buddy!