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On 2023-12-27 7:32 a.m., Luc Castermans wrote:
hi
mini howto would be nice. I use "apt" too, never was aware e.g.
Firefox is not seen be Discover although enabled in sources.list
Luc
Sedat Dilek <[email protected]> schreef op 27 december 2023
13:16:50 UTC:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 11:27 PM Marc Haber
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, on my new notebook I am trying to do more administrative
tasks in graphical tools to be able to answer beginners'
questions in the unix user group. That also means package
management, which I usually do with apt on the command line.
KDE Discover seems to not quite the package management tool I
am looking for. It only says that my Debian unstable offers
like 2000 packages for installation (the notebook alone has
2400 packages installed), it says that the installation only
has 240 packages installed. And it cannot find the firefox
browser. (1) Am I holding KDE Discover wrong?
Hi Marc, there is some work to be done to get KDE/discover run
properly and update all the software catalogues while recognizing
your sources.list. This resulted in more MB to be downloaded for
all my repository-information - when using/checked with apt. But I
never installed software via KDE/discover - just displayed what
software is available. Maybe, I can share my mini-howto when I am
in front of my Debian system. IIRC apt-config-xxx and packagekit
needs to be adapted. When I was using mobile network connection I
disabled some settings in apt-config-xxx to reduce the amount of
(repository) data which is required by KDE/discover to build the
software-catalogues.
(2) If KDE Discover is not what I am looking for, what is the
recommended way to do package management, install, deinstall,
configure, purge Debian packages from the Debian archive on a
KDE system?
/me relies on good old apt for software-upgrades. BR, -Sedat-
I use too use apt, but there is Apper. It is not as "shiny and bright"
as Discover but does provide a KDE GUI to package management and seems
to include all packages in sources.list. It's very basic - it does not
seem provide for purging or autoremove for example.
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<div dir="auto">hi<br>
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mini howto would be nice. I use "apt" too, never was aware e.g.
Firefox is not seen be Discover although enabled in sources.list<br>
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<pre class="k9mail"><div dir="auto">On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 11:27 PM Marc Haber <a
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Hi,
on my new notebook I am trying to do more administrative tasks in
graphical tools to be able to answer beginners' questions in the unix
user group. That also means package management, which I usually do with
apt on the command line.
KDE Discover seems to not quite the package management tool I am looking
for. It only says that my Debian unstable offers like 2000 packages for
installation (the notebook alone has 2400 packages installed), it says
that the installation only has 240 packages installed. And it cannot
find the firefox browser.
(1) Am I holding KDE Discover wrong?
</div></blockquote><div dir="auto">
Hi Marc,
there is some work to be done to get KDE/discover run properly and
update all the software catalogues while recognizing your
sources.list.
This resulted in more MB to be downloaded for all my
repository-information - when using/checked with apt.
But I never installed software via KDE/discover - just displayed what
software is available.
Maybe, I can share my mini-howto when I am in front of my Debian system.
IIRC apt-config-xxx and packagekit needs to be adapted.
When I was using mobile network connection I disabled some settings in apt-config-xxx to reduce the amount of (repository) data which is
required by KDE/discover to build the software-catalogues.
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dir="auto"> (2) If KDE Discover is not what I am looking for, what is the
recommended way to do package management, install, deinstall,
configure, purge Debian packages from the Debian archive
on a KDE system?
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/me relies on good old apt for software-upgrades.
BR,
-Sedat-
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<p> I use too use apt, but there is Apper. It is not as "shiny and
bright" as Discover but does provide a KDE GUI to package
management and seems to include all packages in sources.list. It's
very basic - it does not seem provide for purging or autoremove
for example. <br>
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