Re: KDE Issues under "Squeeze"
Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:49:44PM -0500, lrhorer wrote:
>> Secondly, KPackage is badly broken. It only shows a handful
>> of
>> applications installed or available. Synaptic or aptitude show
>> thousands available and hundreds installed, of course. What's more,
>> I
>
> Then use aptitude.. ;)
I've used it, of course. Kpackage is much easier. It's rare I say
that about a GUI utility vs. a CLI one, but in this case it's true.
>> no longer see how one can manage the sources in the new KDE4
>> KPackage.
>
> Feature. Just don't :-) (Personal opinion)
Neither of those comments are helpful. Without KPackage, KDE isn't
much use.
>> In KDE3, one could not only easily manage the apt sources from inside
>> the app, but also RPM repositories. Now I don't see how to manage
>> the apt sources (I can manually edit /etc/apt/sources.list, of
>> course) or how to manage rpm sources, at all.
>
> You must not install rpms on a Debian system if you need sanitiy.
> Besides that installing rpms from a repos would not work because you
> don't have the dependencies they require (because they're either not
> there, have "wrong" package names, or simply are not recorded in the
> rpm database)
That's just nonsense. Many packages simply do not have Debian sources,
and I have used KPackage to successfully install many alien packages.
In some cases, there may be a reasonable .deb subsitute, but many
packages, most notably hardware drives, simply have no substitute. Two
of my RAID controllers, for example, only have RPM distros. Surely you
are not suggesting a PC - Debian or otherwise - can do without its hard
drives? They installed fine under KDE3.
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