downloading wicd for Kubuntu 8.04

ray burke rayburke30 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 21:31:14 UTC 2010


On 7/2/10, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> ray burke wrote:
>  > as I have been advised by searching for connection of my
>  > wireless broadband usb stick (Dodo) to operate properly and bee
>  > recognised as a modem that I have to install WICD but within the web
>  > page of "http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php" it does not
>  > mention install for Kubuntu?
>
>
> Well, the description is for Ubuntu but Kubuntu shares the same
>  repository and wicd works more or less the same for both Ubuntu and
>  Kubuntu. I just can't tell you a GUI way to add the repo because I don't
>  have a 8.04 machine left. You can add the line
>
>  deb http://apt.wicd.net hardy extras
>
>  to your sources.list file. You need root privilege to edit that file and
>  you could do it with the command
>
>  kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list
>
>  from a terminal or from Alt-F2. Then add the key as described on the
>  page you mentioned. After that you can install wicd from your favourite
>  package manager.
>
>
>  Nils
>
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Nils,

OK will attemp to do so, thanks

ray




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