[NTLUG:Discuss] Fw: The in's & outs of synaptic packsge manager

[Gilbert Morrow]

Don't like Ubuntu , here is a Google search and it's finds :
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kde ,
http://www.debianadmin.com/install-kde-desktop-in-ubuntu.html
Might be what you need .
Don't like Ubuntu , use PCLinuxOS (much easier OS in my opinion) or SuSE .

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Allen Meyers <chef11994 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

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> I received no replies from my previous post except
> the one stating what I said was Greek to him so let me be more to the
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> When one searches SPM (that is the acronym for
> package manager not Greek) for lets say KDE desktop on can preview the
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> description, but is not quite sure this will give him the entire capability
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> desires i.e, its dependencies as well..
> One sees green boxes with red arrows which I assume
> indicates installed and one sees white boxes with red arrows (which
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> what)?
> Going the terminal route:
> allen at allen-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install Kubuntu_desktop
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Couldn't find package Kubuntu_desktop (underline is mine)
> So what I have is a boot to ubuntu an opening kubuntu screen and a gnome
> desktop. (rather interesting)
> While I deem it extremely important to get out of this mess I would
> appreciate an actual explanation or a place to get one that explains packsge
> manager dependencies and how you know you got the whole thing before install
> and not be faced with wondering what did I not do.
> Thanks Allen
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