Where can I get csh?

It should be a simple matter of (from konsole, "su" to become user root) doing the following command:

# apt-get install csh  # The first "#" is the root prompt

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Hi, Jon! Thanks for your response! I tried apt-get install csh as root, first. It was not found in the Kubuntu repositories. Then I tried apt-get install c-shell. I got an error, something like "package c-shell is not available but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, , or is only available from another source." I realize that I seem to be not real bright, looking for a package for Kubuntu here on MEPIS, but I figured that if Kubuntu didn't have it in their repositories, maybe I could get it here (because I know it is in MEPIS). Of course, it would be pointless to apt-get install on my MEPIS machine, because it's already installed by the original distro CD of MEPIS. Thanks again, Barry T.

I'm not in front of my Mepis box at the moment, so I'm going from memory (VERY DANGEROUS THING).

You may need to add/open other repositories. But before you do that, open a konsole and do a search on the current package (have you done an "apt-get update" before you tried anything else?). To search for a package, do this:

apt-cache search nameofpackage

You can also do "apropos shell" to give you a list of "valid" commands related to shell.

Next, if you find the package you want, do the following "simulation" installation:

# apt-get -s install nameofpackage

It will dump stuff to your screen showing if you need additional packages or libraries. If you like what you see, then do the exact same command, but remove the "-s".

Clarify for me again: Are you trying to load csh on Kubuntu?

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Hi, Jon! Both of the "look for it" commands you gave me generated some interesting output, with the apropos shell giving about 25 lines. They found bash and dash among others, but no csh or anything that looked like a replacement for csh. Strange as it may seem, I AM trying to stick csh into my Kubuntu box, because the Brother printer drivers for my MFC210C are not natively supported by either MEPIS or Kubuntu. I have installed the drivers on my MEPIS box, but I am trying to install them on the Kubuntu box, just to evaluate Kubuntu. The wiki for Brother unsupported printers says that the machine needs csh, because the cupswrapper for that printer is written in c-shell. I don't know enough about languages to recompile the drivers in another language. Thanks again, Barry T.

Well Barry, I am, yet again, not in front of my Mepis box, where I also have a copy of VMware. With that I can look at a current copy of Kubuntu to see what repositories are available (or need to be added).

Unless someone else will respond first, I will try to take a look at this the next couple days. The "apt-get install..." should work if the repositories are right.

When you do the command "whereis csh" (no quotes, and no space in "whereis") do you get an answer?

BTW, once csh IS installed, does it simply need to be available for the scripts you are wanting to use, or are you personally wanting to use csh? If you want to use it, you will probably have to make a small change in your user account in the /etc/passwd file. But I will save giving that info until I have a chance to look for the other thing.

I'll let you know what I find

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Hi, Jon!
The whereis cmd gives csh:. Nothing more. I need csh only to run scripts associated with the Brother drivers; I am a lousy programmer, and I had enough Fortran back in the days to last a lifetime. Anything you find would be appreciated, but this is a "toy" and nothing more. I have lots of machines that work fine, so the Kubuntu box is an experiment. Thanks,
Barry