Adept... programs 'installed' don't actually appear to be...

[unununium]

Hey, can someone shed some light on a problem I am having with Adept? Whenever I do a search for a program I would like to install, everything seems to be installed. However, I don't believe this is accurate. For example, it shows that Firefox is installed, but I cannot seem to find this specific web browser. Also, I have tried to install programs requiring the 'make' command. The terminal says that it doesn't recognize that command, however Adept says that 'make' is installed. Seems that both Ubuntu and Kubuntu are missing this. Numerous programs require the 'make' command, but I have never been able to get it to work.

Thanks in advance!

[Fenyx]

Re: Adept... programs 'installed' don't actually appear to be...

1. Sometimes (just sometimes), programs that you install are not automatically added to the K Menu, unless you log out and log in again. You can try to manually update the K Menu by entering this command in Konsole

kbuildsycoca --noincremental

If that doesn't work, just log out and back in again.

2. Check if you have the package called build-essential installed. If not, install it. You are not actually trying to install programs using make, at least not yet. You are actually compiling the program from the source code. the command "make install" is the one that actually installs the compiled program. However, there are also numerous programs that don't need to be compiled from source and are found in our own repositories. You might want to check if the program you are trying to compile can be found in the repositories, as it will save you a lot of trouble.

[unununium]

Re: Adept... programs 'installed' don't actually appear to be...

Thanks, but that didn't seem to work. Actually, I have not installed Firefox, but Adept says that it is installed.

As for build-essential, how do you install it? Adept doesn't show it, and all of my repositories are uncommented... see below.

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe


Thanks!

[kubicle]

Re: Adept... programs 'installed' don't actually appear to be...

This is related to your post in the other thread, Adept can't reach the repositories...so the packages aren't available/shown.

I find it odd it shows the packages as 'installed', though...which they aren't...but fixing the underlying problem should solve your issues.

The repositories hold about 20.000 packages so you'll probably find most of the sotware you need there once you get to them, so you don't need to compile from source using 'make'