Intrepid KDE 4.2 64bit Firefox and Thunderbird

[Billie Erin Walsh]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
>   
>> Alan Dacey wrote:
>>     
>>> Steven Vollom wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I have a 64 bit AMD that is supposed to run 32 bit aps too.  I can't 
>>>> seem to get either Firefox or Thunderbird to show up in Adept.  Is there 
>>>> something I should know about this.  It is working on my 32bit 
>>>> installation of Intrepid.
>>>>
>>>> Steven
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> The new Adept is only good for automatic updates.  Use Synaptic to install 
>>> stuff, that will actually show you the packages you are searching for.
>>> Drop to a command line and type in:
>>>       sudo apt-get install synaptic
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> OK???????
>> Why wouldn't you just let synaptic do the install?
>>
>>     
> Because before this, synaptic itself needs to be installed, as Alan 
> suggested?
>
>
>   
I don't know about anyone else's install but synaptic was on mine. YMMV