How do I install in Kubuntu?

[danielsard]

Hi:

I just installed yesterday Kubuntu on my machine. I come from windows, where you just double click on the setup.exe and thats it, you can install whatever you want.

I have asked this question on Y! Answers and the people who replied to my question told me about installing by Konsole, using Synaptic Manager and/or Add/Remove programs.

I have tried them all, but i still cant install most of the stuff that i want, like RPM and tar.gz

how can i do that in an easy way

thanks in advance

[a_hippie]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

greetings danielsard:

stop and learn first. glad you asked us here and we're always happy to help.

try to avoid rmp and gz type program installs. yes, sometimes it is the only way, but for most users, you have a much more powerful tool at your disposal--adept (package manager) which is installed with your basic install of kubuntu.

you can start this program by clicking on the "k" menu, select "system" then finally, click on adept package manager. you will have to give your password again and then it will start.

this installer will help you install all the software available to kubuntu users from the kubuntu software repositories. there is a little search box, just type in your application name, and it will search for it and give you the option of installing/removing it if it is available.

further, you don't explain what kind of applications you need/want to install. please give us a clue and we should be able to get you pointed in the right direction.

regards

wishing you well.

[danielsard]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

Hi a_Hippie:

Thanks for your answer, what im trying to install is the AIM for Linux, the flash player for web browsers (Opera, Firefox, Konqueror) , and to get me the Visual Boy so i can play me a few GBA games

thanks in advance

PS: is there any good MSN clone for Kubuntu please?

[a_hippie]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

forget about aim, use 'gaim'. i like it better than the aol version and it works very well.

for flash and java and all that is not free (as in beer) you should probably using the automatix program. let me see if it is eeasy to find. . . . okay, looks like the front of their website is down but the rest looks like it is online. take a look here and see if this well help you:
http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/ind...e=Installation

i don't know what gba games are. i don't know what msn is either.

good luck to you.

[aysiu]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

amsn (also known as aMSN) is in the repositories, as is flashplugin-nonfree (also known as Flash 7).

Have you already enabled extra repositories? If not, that could explain why you're not finding much in Add/Remove Programs or Adept.

[danielsard]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

hi aysiu:

I introduced the code, but i dont see any changes in the add/remove. Did i skipped an step?

Thanks in advance

[aysiu]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

Add/Remove is a very a basic package manager interface.

Adept should have all the packages available.

Don't forget to update your repository info after changing your sources.list. That way, the package manager knows what's available:

sudo aptitude update

[cantab]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

Once you've added the extra repositories (universe, multiverse, and perhaps backports), go into Adept (under System on the K menu), and you should find VisualBoyAdvance is there. You'll know you have the extra repos if Adept or whatever tells you it knows of around 18 thousand packages rather than 18 hundred.

For both AIM and MSN, since you're running KDE, Kopete is the obvious choice, and should be installed already. You could try others though.

For the flash plugin, you could try the flash 9 beta,

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

In my experience it's no more or less reliable than flash 7.

To install it, extract the archive, then copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins. You'll need to be root to do so; you can get a root Konqueror using the run dialogue.

BEAR IN MIND that it will not update automatically. Check adobe's site from time to time to see if there's a new version.

If you're coming from Windows, you're likely used to finding software by a web search. However, in Linux, your first port of call should be the package manager (I use Adept). Only if it turns up nothing, or if you need/want more recent versions, ought you then to go looking online.

[danielsard]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

sorry to ask, but how can i become root? I installed the whole thing with the help of a friend, and he let me assign my username and passwords (he has no user or anything on my computer)

Thanks

[aysiu]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

You don't become root.

If you are trying to run a command as root from the command-line, you preface the command with sudo. For example, instead of typing:

su
aptitude update
exit

you would type

sudo aptitude update

If you're trying to make some changes as root with Konqueror, use kdesu konqueror, and Konqueror will open with root privileges.

[danielsard]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

Sorry about my ignorance, but i cant find kdesu konqueror (or it is a command on Konqueror?) ... sorry about that

[a_hippie]

Re: How do I install in Kubuntu?

it might work nicer if you use the kde launcher:

press and hold ALT key, then press F2 once

now type in "kdesu konqueror ~" that squiggle is the tilde symbol, just left of the number 1 on your upper row of keys below the function keys. also, leave out the quotes

if you are more of a point-n-click person, click on the k menu then select "run command..." and enter the command above.

hope that helps.