Installation of packages on ubuntu

Marc Wiriadisastra strikeforce at iinet.net.au
Wed Aug 3 08:17:42 UTC 2005


Did you try installing using kubuntu-desktop or apt-get install
kubuntu-desktop or did you try apt-get install kde-core?

I found if I installed kubuntu-desktop it works.  I haven't tried
kde-core.

HTH

Marc
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 08:58 +0100, Shivakumar GN wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to try out KDE desktop on ubuntu.
> I tried using synaptic manager as the per the
> instructions in the kubuntu site. The package list got
> updated but the installation itself failed due to
> dependancy issues. (I have installed SWs from the
> ubuntu add-on CD. I do not know if that had obsoleted
> some libraries because of which this failed).
> 
> apt-get also gave same problems.
> Finally I searched the packages on the CD and
> installed them individually using dpkg command. I
> could get the KDE desktop up.
> 
> [1] Is there a cleaner way to handle the dependancy
> issues? I have always seen synaptic or apt-get being
> referred to. Have I missed something because of which
> the problem occurred?
> [2] I need to install many education related
> softwares? How to ensure that some dependant libraries
> are not over-written because of which one of the
> existing S/Ws stop working?
> [3] The system running ubuntu is not connected to net.
> How to I specify to synaptic/apt-get to pick a package
> existing on the HDD or CD and not to search on the
> net?
> 
> Getting the system up and running with the distro is a
> snap. But I have found identifying other compatible
> SWs which get installed without issues to be a bit
> painful(especially since synaptic needs net connection
> and I do not have one).
> 
> thanks in advance
> Shiv
> 
> 
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