How to install emacs on Kubuntu

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-08-11, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Well, it's not fully activated; you still have some
> items(repositories) commented out so they wont be
> checked.

OK, I checked everything except backports in the adept manager,
and verified that it uncommented the corresponding entries in
/etc/apt/sources.list

> Backports and Canonical are notable. Suggest you
> uncomment all listings, then do "sudo aptitude update"

That hangs while attempting to connect.  After killing it, I
tried "download updates" from the "Adept Manager".  It also
hung for a while, and then "Adept Manager" crashed.

It appears that aptitude was ignoring the proxy setting I
entered via the network manager. After setting the environment
variable "http_proxy", it looks like aptitude is working from
the command line.

So much for the GUI "manager" stuff...

I guess I'll go back to editing config files and running
aptitude from the command line.

> I'm assuming you are familiar with the command line
> and use of apt-get/aptitude.

Yes.  I've been using Debian for many years (often on systems
that don't even have X installed).  In the past I've been
chastised for resorting to command line stuff and config file
editing on Ubuntu systems and was told to use the provided GUI
management stuff or else I'd "break my system".

That would be understandable advice if the GUI was sufficient
to actually get a system up and running, but it doesn't seem to
be.

Anyhow, the underlying cause of all this is that configuring a
proxy in the network manager doesn't make apt/aptitude work.

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