Intrepid KDE 4.2 64bit Firefox and Thunderbird

[Billie Erin Walsh]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2009/2/28 Billie Erin Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net>:
>   
>> 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
>>
>>     
>
> Synaptic is a GNOME program and used as default package manager in
> Ubuntu, Kubuntu on the other hand uses KDE and has Adept as default
> program manager as it is a KDE program. Synaptic is not in a default
> installation of Kubuntu.
> You must have installed it or it was pulled in as a dependence of
> another package.
>
> / Jonas
>
>   

I don't know. What I do know is that I did a clean install of Kubuntu 
9.10. As usual I opened Adept and it was such a piece of garbage I went 
and looked for something different. I had used synaptic on my 
EeePC/Xandros/Xfce and it was better than the new Adept. It was in the 
system menu and I've been using it ever since. How it got there I don't 
know. Why it was there I don't know. It just was.