[Scottish] Kubuntu help.....?

[the scribbler]

actually,

READ THE FUCKING MANUAL AGAIN DIPSHIT

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#How_to_install_Multimedia_Player_.28RealPlayer_10.29

and mabye stop posting here, it's really pissing us off, it's not an ubuntu
support forum.


On 11/03/07, the scribbler <scribz76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> did you update your sources ?
>
> On 11/03/07, babaguy <babaguy at myway.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear SLUG,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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..."
> >
> >
> >
> > The problem with this is that on my system the only option Adept Pkg.
> > Mgr. presents me with is "Adept Package Manager>Quit?"
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 -
> >
> >
> >
> > 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...)
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?"
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.....
> >
> >
> >
> > - Paul
> >
> >
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