Re: Package management tool

Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> schreef op 27 december 2023 13:16:50 UTC:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 11:27 PM Marc Haber <mh+debian-kde@zugschlus.de> wrote:

 Hi,

 on my new notebook I am trying to do more administrative tasks in
 graphical tools to be able to answer beginners' questions in the unix
 user group. That also means package management, which I usually do with
 apt on the command line.

 KDE Discover seems to not quite the package management tool I am looking
 for. It only says that my Debian unstable offers like 2000 packages for
 installation (the notebook alone has 2400 packages installed), it says
 that the installation only has 240 packages installed. And it cannot
 find the firefox browser.

 (1) Am I holding KDE Discover wrong?

Hi Marc,

there is some work to be done to get KDE/discover run properly and
update all the software catalogues while recognizing your
sources.list.

This resulted in more MB to be downloaded for all my
repository-information - when using/checked with apt.

But I never installed software via KDE/discover - just displayed what
software is available.

Maybe, I can share my mini-howto when I am in front of my Debian system.

IIRC apt-config-xxx and packagekit needs to be adapted.

When I was using mobile network connection I disabled some settings in
apt-config-xxx to reduce the amount of (repository) data which is
required by KDE/discover to build the software-catalogues.

 (2) If KDE Discover is not what I am looking for, what is the
     recommended way to do package management, install, deinstall,
     configure, purge Debian packages from the Debian archive
     on a KDE system?


/me relies on good old apt for software-upgrades.

BR,
-Sedat-