Installing new apps and apt-get

[thinux]

I'm a new user with Linux. I installed Kubuntu Live on my hard drive and were trying to install new applications with apt-get or the Add/Remove software from the menu. No luck! apt-get goes through the steps but then tells me that it couldn't find the application. I could connect to the Internet (that's where I registered on this forum). I tried to read in the manual whether I should set the path for new installations to be the internet and not from the hard drive or CD, but couldn't find any help on this.

Any help appreciated!!! How do I get apt-get to work. Is yum a better option (but how do I install yum if apt-get doesn't want to work?)

Thanks

[Rog131]

Re: Installing new apps and apt-get

Did you ?:

:~$ sudo apt-get update

3.1 Updating the list of available packages

The packaging system uses a private database to keep track of which packages are installed, which are not installed and which are available for installation. The apt-get program uses this database to find out how to install packages requested by the user and to find out which additional packages are needed in order for a selected package to work properly.

To update this list, you would use the command apt-get update.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html


Kubuntu use:

Adept
Adept is a GUI to the Advanced Packaging Tool for KDE. Adept is developed by Peter Ročkai and is sponsored by Canonical Ltd. through the Kubuntu project.

Also you can use:

Synaptic
Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.

or

Aptitude
A highly configurable console front-end for Debian APT. Aptitude is a text-based interface to the Debian GNU/Linux package system.

Links:
APT HOWTO
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html

Unofficial Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Starter Guide
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty

Kubuntuguide
http://www.kubuntuguide.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Synaptic Package Manager - Home
http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/index.html

aptitude versus apt-get
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/aptitude

Topic: benefits and disadvantages of synaptic instead of adept in Kubuntu
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=5933.0