Kubuntu experience

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 09:24 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:27, you wrote:
> > Let me know how the KDE Version of Ubuntu treats you.
> 
> Well, it installed "like a dream", but I am very disappointed cpw my 
> warty plus downloaded KDE (on the system I am using to send this 
> message to you) and my prior experience of KDE in FBSD.
> 
> The number and variety of apps is so diminished as to be worrying.
> kappfinder is NOT listed - I just knew it had to be there - but it finds 
> litte more.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AddingRepositoriesHowto
> 
> No Firefox, no emacs, no gnumeric (because it's gnome?) no abiword (same 
> reason?).  You have kate, but not kwrite or kedit.  Why not a single 
> game?  No xmms or xine, no kuickshow, no gimp.  So it goes on...

All or most of these packages/apps are available. Some are in "main" (in
other words, in the synaptic package manager by default). Some are in
universe. For maximum numbers, you might also wish to enable the
multiverse repository.

code
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apt-cache search <keyword>
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is pretty useful, I find, and often quicker than using the GUI. (YMMV)

> Worse, I have had trouble with kynaptic.  It does not have the useful 
> "edit your repository" feature of Synaptic, so I could not change 
> sources.list (to add multiverse and universe) nor to change from ubuntu 
> to my local mirror.  To accomplish this I had to change root's password 
> and from a root console use nano.  

You didn't need to do this - sudo is all you needed

code
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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
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> That change saved OK, but kynaptic 
> now refuses to recognise either mine or the new root's passwords!   :-(

Not sure how you managed to make this happen, but I suspect it had to do
with whatever method you used to gain a root password (I may be wrong)
> 
> I am not allowed to log in as root.  Frankly this is MOST 
> unsatisfactory.  I need to be able to take total control of my own 
> system, please.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RootSudo

> What do I do, now?  Is hoary similarly stripped of useful apps?
> Will hoary allow me to log in as root if I need to do this?

Code:
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sudo -s
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> Should I just chuck out the whole idea of unbuntu as my failed 
> experiment with a flawed disto?

That would be a pity, but if you still think so after reading the links,
and perhaps having a look at http://ubuntuguide.org , perhaps it isn't
for you. Seems to work rather well for a lot of people...
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Brian

Peter
>