[NTLUG:Discuss] Fwd: terminal or SPM

[Tony]

Just to make sure you get it this time, i sent it to you and the list
again. There were also a couple of other replies.

Also i think you are confused a little on the terminology of the
desktops/distro you run. I am gathering from what you have said you
actually have "ubuntu" installed. Ubuntu is the base distro that other
distro's like kubuntu and xubuntu are based on. I think what you are
actually wanting when you say "kubuntu desktop" is you want the KDE
desktop. And by installing kubuntu-desktop you also get a couple other
things than just the standard kde desktop, you get the kde desktop and
all the extras that come by default with the kubuntu distribution.  I
hope this helps.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tony <imageek72 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] terminal or SPM
To: leroy_tennison at prodigy.net, NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Leroy Tennison
<leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
> 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
>>

> I hate to say it but you're already speaking "geek" to me, what is SNP?
>  I found a definition on the web of "SubNetwork Protocol" but that
> doesn't appear to fit the context.

I think he is referring, as in the subject, to Synaptic Package
Manager. I think the SNP was a typo.

Allen to answer your question as far as apt-get goes, you are putting
a capital K on the kubuntu-desktop, and also you have an underscore _
instead of a dash -

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop should work fine.

I really cant answer the questions about synaptic, as i do not use it.