[clue-tech] Kubuntu 7.10 - Adept won't install anything

[Richard Knechtel]

The install went just fine - no errors. Aftere I rebooted out of the livecd
mode and into my instalation is when I tried to do the additional package
installs. When you go into the "add and remove applications" it puts you
into Adept by default. How do I get into synaptic?

I wish they would give you a setting to "switch" on a "super user" mode that
would give people more comfortable in Linux to see what is -really- going
wrong.

Thanks,

On Dec 3, 2007 9:11 AM, Jed S. Baer <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:11:47 -0600
> Richard Knechtel wrote:
>
> > Anyone had this problem before or is Kubuntu just
> > not a good distro?
>
> When in the process are you having these problems?
>
> You say you installed from the LiveCD. Did the install finish completely?
>
> If the install finished completely, you can just login in and use some
> other tool.
>
> FWIW, I run Kubuntu, and while I'm not yet as comfortable with using apt
> as I am with rpm, overall I do think it's better. But I don't care for
> adept much. I use synaptic.
>
> If the install completed, open a virtual terminal, and type:
>  sudo apt-get update
>  sudo apt-get install {packagename}
>
> Repeat 2nd line for each package you want installed.
>
> Looking through the Ubuntu help for package maintenance will be some
> help, though it's thin on details. But from there you can move to more
> advanced articles.
>
> BTW, what you've described isn't a problem just with adept. I run into
> the "Oh Noes! Did not wurk!" type of error messages all the time,
> irrespective of distribution. Seems to be the new GUI way for the Linux
> desktop. Hey, let's not confuse the user with error messages they won't
> understand anyway.
>
> jed
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