Re: Kubuntu 6.06 , Firefox. install

Hello Roger,

Thanks much for all the info.

Have been "on Linux" on and off for many years but never
really "Into it" as one should. Why? I wanted to run a very good
audio processing program that was written under Linux.

In particular, I think because Linux provided a C/C++ compiler
for free instead of some USD 500 or more from the other vendor.

Following that project for some 7 or 8 years, books can be filled
with questions on how to get this program to work on different hard-
ware platforms. Anyway.

There is a lot of very positive reporting on Ubuntu on the internet
and I have been wondering why. Compared to Knoppix, Debian, SuSe,
Mandrake, all versions that I have had or tried to make to work
here at one time or another.

I am going to read your email carefully and hope to get back with you
later.

I have worked in a version of KDE where one had a file manager that
one could run with root privileges ( super Kfile or something like it )
It would let you move, copy, etc. files at root. Have not been able
to find that capability in Kubuntu. Does it exist?


Regards,


Rein Smit












Roger Haxton wrote:

On Friday 22 September 2006 00:40, Rein A. Smit wrote:

Hi Tod,


Thanks for info.

I am not at the machine with Kubuntu, so will answer
whether Firefox is there or not. But I looked for it
whether it had been installed with the standard install
and did not find it. Could be well my mistake.

Let me address the Ubuntu/Kubuntu issue.

I wanted to put Ubuntu on an old Pentium 200 MHz with 1024
Mb. Again, I knew that would be marginal but did not think
it would be THAT marginal. Never got it to work in Xwindows.

So then I went to the P4 machine and as my previous experience is
with KDE, I decided for the Kubuntu version.

I am well aware that there is Office and Spread sheets and tons
of other programs. What I intended to say is that if I click on
a .pdf or .doc or mp3 or what have you, as an active link in a
WEB page, I want the browser to be able to handle that. ( such
as open Adobe reader or some .ppt reader, mp3 player etc ) without
having to download the file then open Adobe by hand.

http://www.konqueror.org/

Konqueror does do these functions I noticed now.

Firefox is, as is Netscape and IE with all its other drawbacks.

Will get back on whether Firefox is installed or not. If nothing
else, on a version to be used on the WEB, I should think that a browser
as Firefox, would be listed under "Internet", and it is not in Kubuntu.



Rein,

IIRC, Kubuntu doesn't come pre-installed with Firefox as KDE is designed to
use Konq rather than some other browser. Personally, I always start with an
Ubuntu install then make sure I have enabled the universe and multiverse
repositories then do a sudo aptitude update and sudo aptitude install
kubuntu-desktop. This installs everything that installs with kubuntu into my
ubuntu and I now have the choice of GNOME or KDE as my WM. I have also gone
the other way and installed Kubuntu first and then did sudo aptitude install
ubuntu-desktop. Of course if you don't want gnome and everything else that
the ubuntu desktop provides, you can do just sudo aptitude install firefox
(thunderbird, etc, etc). FWIW, adept is the graphical package manager that
is installed by default in Kubuntu, but I prefer synaptic, so even if I don't
install the entire ubuntu-desktop on my kubuntu machine, I definitely install
synaptic for when I want a graphical package manager. Once you have the
universe and multiverse repositories enabled, poke around in there and see
everything that is available to install. Oh, the other nice thing is the
add/remove programs from the main kubuntu menu. When I use the one for KDE,
I make sure the drop down box says any suite so I can see both GNOME and KDE
packages and check the boxes for unsupported and proprietary software. Very
nice selection that is a snap to download and install. Another tip as I use
my laptop a lot rather than a desktop is I adjust my /etc/apt/sources.list
file to comment out the cdrom that way I can install software and it doesn't
ever prompt me for the cd as it just downloads everything it needs.

Hope this helps your foray into (k)ubuntu as I love it and run it on all my
machines.




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