K guys, after much kicking and rolling i had given in to the pressure ! - I installed ubuntu on my hdd with the help of a friend of mine( you must recollect that i am a linux simpleton). The synaptic application is just awesome - installing ginac was just a piece of cake. The ginac-config works w/o any problems 
<br>Thanks so much alexei, and chris for your time; i really appreciate your help !<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">aravind b</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:baravi2005@gmail.com">baravi2005@gmail.com
</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">thanks a lot chris and alexei, i will try out your suggestions. as i said, i am a total newbie to linux for that matter to unix so please bear with&nbsp; my dumb questions !
<br><br><div><div><span class="e" id="q_10ebe4911a1dbed7_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Sheplyakov Alexei</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:varg@theor.jinr.ru" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">varg@theor.jinr.ru</a>&gt; wrote:</span></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hello,<br><br>On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, aravind b wrote:<br>&gt; however dpkg command gives the following:<br>&gt; root@1[/]# dpkg -l libginac-dev<br>&gt; No packages found matching libginac-dev.<br><br>In plain English that means &quot;package libginac-dev is not installed&quot;.
<br><br>&gt; However, in aptitude, libginac shows up in the installed packages.<br><br>libginac1.3* contains only shared library, so it is sufficient for<br>running *already compiled* programs.&nbsp;&nbsp;But for compiling/linking with
<br>GiNaC you need also libginac-dev.<br><br>&gt; As i am using a live dvd, i cannot upgrade or install anything from<br>&gt; the web.<br><br>Technically, this is not true: installing packages on KNOPPIX (and<br>probably any derived distro) _without remastering_ is possible.
<br>Regular 'aptitude install', 'dpkg -i' work fine.<br><br>Best regards,<br> Alexei<br><br>--<br>All science is either physics or stamp collecting.<br><br><br><br></span></div><span class="q">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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