[Scottish] Kubuntu help.....?

[the scribbler]

did you update your sources ?

On 11/03/07, babaguy <babaguy at myway.com> wrote:
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> Dear SLUG,
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> I have installed the KUBUNTU recommended by the Scribbler. I now cannot
> see how to install any programmes not included in the pre-selected lists
> ("KDE, GNOME, ANY SUITE")in Adept Package Manager/Updates.
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> Before any of your jump on me for not having R'd TFM, I *have* been R'ing
> TFM for the past two days. This morning I was on Marcel Gagne's site and
> another individual with exactly this problem has a post there - the only
> (remotely) helpful reply tells him to go into "Adept Package Manager >
> Manage packages..."
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> The problem with this is that on my system the only option Adept Pkg. Mgr.
> presents me with is "Adept Package Manager>Quit?"
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> I downloaded RealPlayer for Linux - it parked itself on the desktop (as
> things did in my dodgy Breezy Ubuntu) and then no matter what combination of
> commands I have been able to muster from the man pages, it still will not
> recognise where the pkg is - even if I put the equivalent of "It's on the
> desktop!" in the command -
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> This Kubuntu also gives me the unsettling message "File protocal died
> suddenly." upon booting the desktop - also some other file process also  " -
> died suddenly." (I think this is just a dumb anomaly, because as soon as one
> clicks "Okay" it seems to carry on happily booting...)
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> Should I get ANOTHER Kubuntu, or - as Seago has suggested - Slackware, or
> what? These problems seems to be in the compiling of my particular
> packages/versions - I feel pretty sure most of you don't have an Adept
> Package Manager, for example, whose only FILE/ADEPT option is "Quit?"
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> If you can offer any guidance, I'd appreciate it. (I've e-mailed one of
> the super users on Linux questions but got a reply regarding something else
> entirely asking me to write about another far more involved problem
> altogether.) I'd just like to download and install some software,
> please.....
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> - Paul
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