General questions

[James]

hi, i installed kubuntu for the very first time ever yesterday! I'm just struggling with the installation, firefox, mp3 reader or stuff!

I tried Adept but there isn't the package I needed. So just tell me how to download and install these stuffs.

many thanks!

very new Linux citizen

[Patrick]

Re: General questions

Here you go:

[ link]

Follow the things there and then install 'firefox', and 'gstreamer0.8-mad'.

Not sure what 'stuff' you want tho...

~ Jonathan

[James]

Re: General questions

thanks for answering

but there's something I don't understand, when I try to update the list, it says that there's a problem when downloading

I connect to the network through a proxy, I can still use Konqueror though

[Patrick]

Re: General questions

Ah, Adept doesn't support proxies yet but it's on the TODO, according to what I've heard in the devel channel.

Can you fetch the packages via the command line?

sudo apt-get update

Then:

sudo apt-get install firefox gstreamer0.8-mad

~ Jonathan

[James]

Re: General questions

sorry 4 asking everything but I tried sudo apt-get update from the command line but it still cannot connect to the server.

I'm in France actually, does it matter the connection or Kubuntu have some special severs for France?

[Patrick]

Re: General questions

I use the British ones which are

deb [url]ftp://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper universe

So the French should be

deb [url]ftp://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper universe

In /etc/apt/sources.list

[whoiam55]

Re: General questions

you can try sudo apt-setup from command line to setup your /etc/apt/source.list file, you can also choose the country of your choice from here