Kubuntu 6.06 , Firefox. install

[Rein A. Smit]

Rein A. Smit wrote:
> Roger Haxton wrote:
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>>On Friday 22 September 2006 00:40, Rein A. Smit wrote:
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>>>  Hi Tod,
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>>>Thanks for info.
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>>> I am not at the machine with Kubuntu, so will answer
>>>whether Firefox is there or not. But I looked for it
>>>whether it had been installed with the standard install
>>>and did not find it. Could be well my mistake.
>>>
>>>Let me address the Ubuntu/Kubuntu issue.
>>>
>>>I wanted to put Ubuntu on an old Pentium 200 MHz with 1024
>>>Mb. Again, I knew that would be marginal but did not think
>>>it would be THAT marginal. Never got it to work in Xwindows.
>>>
>>>So then I went to the P4 machine and as my previous experience is
>>>with KDE, I decided for the Kubuntu version.
>>>
>>>I am well aware that there is Office and Spread sheets and tons
>>>of other programs. What I intended to say is that if I click on
>>>a .pdf or .doc or mp3 or what have you, as an active link in a
>>>WEB page, I want the browser to be able to handle that. ( such
>>>as open Adobe reader or some .ppt reader, mp3 player etc ) without
>>>having to download the file then open Adobe by hand.
>>>
>>>   http://www.konqueror.org/
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>>>Konqueror does do these functions I noticed now.
>>>
>>>Firefox is, as is Netscape and IE with all its other drawbacks.
>>>
>>>Will get back on whether Firefox is installed or not. If nothing
>>>else, on a version to be used on the WEB, I should think that a browser
>>>as Firefox, would be listed under "Internet", and it is not in Kubuntu.
>>>
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>>Rein,
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>>IIRC, Kubuntu doesn't come pre-installed with Firefox as KDE is designed to 
>>use Konq rather than some other browser.  Personally, I always start with an 
>>Ubuntu install then make sure I have enabled the universe and multiverse 
>>repositories then do a sudo aptitude update and sudo aptitude install 
>>kubuntu-desktop.  This installs everything that installs with kubuntu into my 
>>ubuntu and I now have the choice of GNOME or KDE as my WM.  I have also gone 
>>the other way and installed Kubuntu first and then did sudo aptitude install 
>>ubuntu-desktop.  Of course if you don't want gnome and everything else that 
>>the ubuntu desktop provides, you can do just  sudo aptitude install firefox 
>>(thunderbird, etc, etc).  FWIW, adept is the graphical package manager that 
>>is installed by default in Kubuntu, but I prefer synaptic, so even if I don't 
>>install the entire ubuntu-desktop on my kubuntu machine, I definitely install 
>>synaptic for when I want a graphical package manager.  Once you have the 
>>universe and multiverse repositories enabled, poke around in there and see 
>>everything that is available to install.  Oh, the other nice thing is the 
>>add/remove programs from the main kubuntu menu.  When I use the one for KDE, 
>>I make sure the drop down box says any suite so I can see both GNOME and KDE 
>>packages and check the boxes for unsupported and proprietary software.  Very 
>>nice selection that is a snap to download and install.  Another tip as I use 
>>my laptop a lot rather than a desktop is I adjust my /etc/apt/sources.list 
>>file to comment out the cdrom that way I can install software and it doesn't 
>>ever prompt me for the cd as it just downloads everything it needs.  
>>
>>Hope this helps your foray into (k)ubuntu as I love it and run it on all my 
>>machines.
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>   Hi Roger,
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> Thanks for the info and idea's
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> I decided to start from scratch and loaded Ubuntu. I am not sure what 
> happened when I loaded Kubuntu, but this time I had my NIC enabled and
> as soon as the loading /installation was ready, Firefox came up with a 
> nice help / introduction Ubuntu site. Very Nice! I am not sure why this 
> did not happen with Kubuntu.
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> The installation process is a lot more intuitive and very nice and 
> smooth. I haven't tried all your other suggestions but at this point
> I am converted!. Indeed it is nice.
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> I will add the Kubuntu softrware and go from there. Got my Firefox
> running fine under Gnome. Have email going as well as FTP and the rest 
> should go fine, I hope.
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> Thanks again, a big help.
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> Regards,
> 
> Rein Smit.
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>  Hi Roger,


    Got Kubuntu added, and Firefox/Konqueror working. You did mention
    being able to select between Ubuntu and Kubuntu or perhaps
    between Gnome and KDE. Where do you set this?  GDM ?


    Regards,

    Rein Smit
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