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[darthman8]

Hi All,
How do i enable the universal component or check to see if is. The other question is what is the universal component and what does it do,

ian

[zonker66]

this doesn't make sense, i know of no package called universal component.
What is it you want to install? as i fear you dont know this, where have you heard of it? or what do you expect it to do for you?

[oz]

Not sure, but maybe he's referring to The Common Desktop Component Model?

[darthman8]

I am not sure where it originally came from it was to do with my printer installation (scanner help). i came across this term inn two of the help sites it was written as enable universal component, i have never heard of this although i have only been using linux for a few months.
My problem has now been resolved so thanks for your input if i come across it again i will post it for you to look at.

ian

[bigtomrodney]

Universal repository perhaps?

You can enable it by uncommenting (removing the ##) from /etc/apt/sources.list where you see the word 'universe' mentioned.

If you post your /etc/apt/sources.list we can show where.

[zonker66]

hmm, "universe repository" -doesn't that belong to the ubuntu-world? I havn't heard of a universe repo in debian before.

[bigtomrodney]

That's very true actually, they use stable, unstable and testing...hmmmm....any ideas?