Question about repositories

[kokeroulis]

Hello

I a new user of kubuntu 9.04.Inside the /etc/apt/source.list i have found the following records.All the other lines are comments.So my question is why kubuntu is using ubuntu repositories?

deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] jaunty-security main restricted
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] jaunty-security universe
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] jaunty-security multiverse
deb [url]http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt[/url] jaunty main #WineHQ - Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope"

[arochester]

Re: Question about repositories

Ubuntu and Kubuntu are very closely related. They come out of the same stable. See "Canonical Ltd." from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd.

[13thSlayer]

Re: Question about repositories

They are the same thing, except the fact Kubuntu uses KDE instead of GNOME. So, why not?

[kokeroulis]

Re: Question about repositories

ok.But if i am using these repositories am i going to add "gnome" files to my system?

[dibl]

Re: Question about repositories

ok.But if i am using these repositories am i going to add "gnome" files to my system?

Only if you choose them, or a package that depends on them.

[kokeroulis]

Re: Question about repositories

ok.For example if i want to install the vlc player,how am i going to install only the vlc player and not any gnome libraries?

[arochester]

Re: Question about repositories

Are you using Synaptic Package Manager? If you choose on Synaptic to load VLC it will tell you any dependencies before they are downloaded and installed.

It won't poison your system if it says that gnome dependencies have to be installed

[dibl]

Re: Question about repositories

Right --- what arochester said.

Are you concerned about "accidently" getting the Gnome desktop installed? Because that is not going to happen -- there are many library files that support packages originally developed for the Gnome desktop, that are still needed if you choose to install the package on your Kubuntu system. But they won't bring the whole Gnome DE in to your system.

[kubicle]

Re: Question about repositories

Firstly, as already mentioned, having kde and gnome in the same repositories (most distributions use the same repos for both) doesn't mean you'll get all the gnome stuff as well, you get what you install.

That said, debian and *buntu install "recommended" packages by default, and some packages may recommend a bit too much.

You can override the default by running by using '--no-install-recommends' option with apt-get.

You can also set this option as default by creating a conf file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d with line:
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
The following should do that for you:

echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "0";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70norecommends

After that, apt (or synaptic) won't install recommends by default anymore (you can revert by deleting the file).