bobkny
January 14th, 2009, 11:55 PM
I'm experimenting with Ubuntu 8.10 on my Toshiba Lap Top. I burned an 8.10 boot disk. So far, I've only been booting Ubuntu from the disk and haven't installed it. There are 2 applications that are very important to me: Skype, and Grabit. When I looked at the package manager, neither of these applications were available. Is there any way I can get these installed in Ubuntu? I know that there is an eeeUbuntu version of Skype - I have it installed on my Asus eeePC; but the open source newsreaders I've looked at in the past pale in comparison to Grabit. Besides, I subscribe to the Grabit search engine, and would like to continue using it. Of course, I can run my machine in dual boot mode, and boot Vista when I want to run Grabit or Skype -- but my ultimate goal is to get rid of Vista completely.