Intrepid KDE 4.2 64bit Firefox and Thunderbird

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> 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. 

Ah that explains it :P by next october, Synaptic will be installed by 
default...

:) sorry for the bad joke, couldn't resist...
I.

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.
>