I'm Not Adept with Adept!

[LaneLester]

I'm fervently hoping to get Kubuntu working well on this old Dell laptop that I want to pass along to my granddaughter, but the frustrations keep coming. Please help me avoid giving her WinXP!

Because of the shutdown bug in 8.04, I installed 8.04.1, which eliminated the problem. But now there's a new problem.

I couldn't find Firefox with Adept, so I uncommented a couple of repositories, but still no Firefox. And no Synaptic, either, which is what I'm mostly used to using with my Xubuntu. Maybe I'm not using Adept correctly. I'm just putting in the name ("firefox"), and all the boxes are checked. But the big list only shows installed stuff, and no matter what I put in the Search field, the big list goes empty: kedit, gedit, kcontrol, joe, bluefish...

I tried unclicking all the "requested" boxes except "no changes," but that didn't do anything.

What am I doing wrong?

Lane

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Re: I'm Not Adept with Adept!

Please find my /etc/apt/sources.list for reference below. Add whatever you fancy to your list, especially universe and multiverse and don't forget afterwards to run

sudo apt-get update

Adept should now come up with firefox.

# deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/ hardy main restricted
# See [url]http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes[/url] for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy main restricted
deb-src [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy-updates main restricted
deb-src [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy-updates main restricted

## 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 [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy universe
deb-src [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy universe
deb [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy-updates universe
deb-src [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy-updates universe

## 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
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy multiverse
deb-src [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy multiverse
deb [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy-updates multiverse

## 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 [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src [url]http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb [url]http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu[/url] hardy partner
deb-src [url]http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu[/url] hardy partner

deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] hardy-security main restricted
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] hardy-security main restricted
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] hardy-security universe
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] hardy-security universe
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] hardy-security multiverse
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] hardy-security multiverse

# Remastersys
deb [url]http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/repository[/url] remastersys/

# KDE 4.1 - beta
deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu[/url] hardy main

[LaneLester]

Re: I'm Not Adept with Adept!

Please find my /etc/apt/sources.list for reference below. Add whatever you fancy to your list, especially universe and multiverse and don't forget afterwards to run

sudo apt-get update

Adept should now come up with firefox.

Thank you very much. I just renamed the original sources.list file and used yours to get Firefox. I can always go back to the original if I ever think of a reason to do so.

Lane

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Re: I'm Not Adept with Adept!

You may also want to consider including the medibuntu repository - a simple google will help - in case you are after dvd stuff, flashplayer and what have you...