hi mini howto would be nice. I use "apt" too, never was aware e.g. Firefox is not seen be Discover although enabled in sources.list
Luc Sedat Dilek <sedat.di...@gmail.com> schreef op 27 december 2023 13:16:50 UTC: >On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 11:27 PM Marc Haber <mh+debian-...@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- >
