Hi there.

Recently I put Edgy Eft on my laptop in place of Windows, and I need to install some software from source, so naturally I need the GNU C libraries to do that. Now the problem that I am having right now is that I have very limited access to the internet (the software I am trying to install is ndiswrapper to support my wireless card). Now I have the GNU C library tar.gz file, but I am clueless as how to install it on the computer. What software do I need to get, directions, anything would be helpful.

On a side note: I would also like to learn how to configure apt to read local packages that I have downloaded. If you don't mind, how would I go about doing that? I have tried looking for the information, but everything that I have found seems to confuse me. Thank you very much.

1- keep windows until you are happy with linux
2- edgy eft is a beta pre release, the website says "not for production systems"
3- ndiswrapper is not the easyest package to install (mailto:robert.hawkin@wanadoo.fr)
4- if you have a package called sss.tar.gz, try :
>su
>[type root password]
>cd /usr/local
>tar zxvf /home/myname/downloads/sss.tar.gz
>cd sss
>./configure
>make
>make install


I should try on something less critical than glib for the first time you install something, perhaps gnuchess?

you don't need to download any tar.gz file... in fact, compiling libc6 on your own could turn-out to be a major nightmare... ubuntu provides you with everything you need, accessible right there from your Synaptic Package Manager... basically, the package with the GNU C development libraries and header files is called "libc6-dev"... but to compile programs you need other stuff too... your best bet is to simply install the meta-package called "build-essential", which will download and install pretty much everything you need (including libc6-dev, gcc, make, etc.)... to install all this from the command line just do a:that must be an old website... Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10) is the latest stable release... perhaps you were thinking of Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04), which at the time of this post fits the description you provided...