[kubuntu-devel] Muon Discover

[George Dvorak]

Why is synaptic ignored? The first thing that I do after installing Kubuntu
us to install Synaptic, then all software updates are done by me with
Synaptic! Yes, I am a rather naive user but I cannot remember all of the
details of these other methods.


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Clay Weber <clay at claydoh.com> wrote:

>  On Thursday, January 09, 2014 11:58:45 AM Scarlett Clark wrote:
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> > On Thursday, January 09, 2014 11:39:08 AM Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
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> > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org>
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> >
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> > wrote:
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> > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:25:27PM -0800, Scarlett Clark wrote:
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> > > >> Is this the default package manager? Or Muon?
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> > > >>
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> > > >> I need all ways to bring this up eg.. command line. I have so far in
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> > > >> a
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> > > >> search from KickOff and KickOff->Programs->Muon Discover
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> > > >
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> > > > We have both Muon and Muon Discover installed by default. Arguably
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> >
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> > this
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> >
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> > > > is application duplication and very un-ubuntu.
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> > > >
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> > > > Does anyone have an opinion of whether Muon Discover is mature
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> >
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> > enough to
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> >
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> > > > stand along and for Muon to be removed from the images?
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> > > >
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> > > > You can access it by KickOff -> Computer -> Software Centre too which
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> >
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> > I'd
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> >
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> > > > expect to be the primary method.
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> > > >
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> > > > Jonathan
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> > >
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> > > I would vote to remove Muon from the image, but I just tried Discover
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> > > one more time and it froze. It usually seems to freeze when I try it
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> > > out.
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> > >
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> > > Mature enough? It does not seem so to me.
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> > >
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> > > Valorie
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> >
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> > It freezes for me as well.
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> > Scarlett
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> Not me. I don't use Discover often, but I have not seen any freezes or
> other problems when I do. I love that it has the Plasma Widgets section -
> it is a lot nicer than the ghns.
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>
>
> Apper has come along way since I last used it, but I do love Muon package
> manager. I have used it and muon updater over apt almost exclusively for
> the past 2 releases with little if any issue. I may just be lucky.
>
>
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