[NTLUG:Discuss] terminal or SPM

[david]

Allen Meyers wrote:
> This is both specific as to kde desktop and general as to SNP vs. terminal
> If I go to SNP and search kde desktop which one do I choose and how do I know before the fact that I have one I need with its dependencies.
> I assume the green box with red arrow is installed so what is white box with red arrow?
> For those who suggest sudo apt-get install Kubuntu_desktop I get this
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Couldn't find package Kubuntu_desktop
> So before the fact on a given package is there a way to determine dependencies or how does one proceed
> Thanks
> Allen
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Personally I use Synaptic. For my distro (PCLinuxOS) KDE is shown as:
kdebase
kdebase-kdm
kde2 (which is misleading because it is the package for KDE3)
kdelibs
kdelibs-common
Plus a ton of kde extras. If you choose say kdebase-kdm, Synaptic will 
install the
needed dependencies.

Here is my output from command line:
[root at local] apt-get -s install kdm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Note, selecting kdebase-kdm instead of kdm
kdebase-kdm is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.

If you want to search packages use: apt-cache search <package name>
Show depends: apt-cache showpkg <package name>

Hope that helps.