KDE & GDE won't cooperate

[Martin J Hooper]

Dave wrote:
> I'll be the first to admit that I am a bit green when it comes to Linux 
> in general, but I'm learning. I have tried a handful of different 
> distros and several window managers including Gnome, KDE & Xfce. I 
> continue to come back to KDE though, as my preferred desktop but I have 
> fallen in love with some of the programs available in Gnome I frankly, 
> can't live without them.

Sounds like you need to enable the multiverse and universe repositories 
in /etc/apt/sources.list

When you have done that do the following to read the details of those 
repos..

sudo apt-get update

Then Adept should see all the extra software.

See this wikipage if you get stuck.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto?highlight=%28repo%29