Comments on: Adept, Welcome to Your Installer (Part 2 of ?)

By: Robert Grow

Robert Grow — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:32:54 +0000

i have a problem with my adept installer
when i first got kde 4.0 i was not plugged into the internet. so i got the bright idea to change the source of things and tell my installer to install something from a home made CD-RW. well as we know somethings just don’t work out and this didn’t, now when ever i try to open my adept-installer/ manager/ add remove program. i get an error message saying that something is wrong with my atp database. then it suggests that i type in terminal “apt-setup” or “atp-get update” to solve the problem. when i try to do that it gives me a string saying to the effect of /media/cdrom0/media/cdrom0/ source place yadda yadda. i can’t remember exactly what it says (right now i am on my friends computer as so anyone can email me as to a good solution.) if all else fails. I’ll just wipe everything on the computer and start from scratch. (i gotta stop messing with things i guess)
please help if possible.

By: SMakabwe

SMakabwe — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:19:19 +0000

Very new to kubuntu/KDE, worked on linux(good amount on xfce on a sun client, some experience, long ago, on an old SUSE machine), but never with enough permissions to install my own programs.

The liveCD adept tryout showed many more programs, many of which I needed, than when I installed Kubuntu on my hard disk. Now Adept shows very few programs, and of the ones it does show, they are mostly grayed out.

I assume I need to install/download packages, but don’t know how. When I go to the KDE site the install instructions just say to use adept(worst instructions ever!)

By: manchicken

manchicken — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:35:42 +0000

What apps might those be?

By: OldLazyDog

OldLazyDog — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:58:27 +0000

I’m a nube. I have installed Kubuntu 7.04 and so far I like it, but still can not wean myself from certain apps that require that other OS. Therefore I am trying to install WINE (more likely Whine). Adept shows it “greyed” out in the office group. I could not locate a Wine package in the cd download version of Kubuntu. I copied debian Wine “binaries” from an Ubuntu site, and have the compressed download sitting on a “thumb drive” sticking out of a USB port. Where do I have to copy the binaries/package for Adept to see them? What about other unrecognized packages, that don’t even have a “greyed out” icon?

By: Blade1384

Blade1384 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:42:17 +0000

Got it…you can disregard last post. Thanks for the help!

By: Blade1384

Blade1384 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:39:54 +0000

Well…I seem to have the menubar hidden as well.

By: manchicken

manchicken — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:46:00 +0000

In the menubar, click “Settings” and unhide the toolbar and status bar. No config file necessary.

By: Blade1384

Blade1384 — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:34:28 +0000

Hey, since you’re an adept manager fan boy, I thought I might pick your brain. I have mistakenly hid the Toolbar and the Status bar in my Adept manager. Is there a config file that I can access somewhere that will get me those back?

By: manchicken

manchicken — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:41:07 +0000

We are working with it. Remember, this program isn’t really that old, and it hasn’t been worked on by a lot of people. There are definitely improvements going into adept for Feisty Fawn–I know because I put a few there–so please stay tuned. Adept is an insanely useful program. I encourage its use even before all of the usability issues have been addressed.

By: Discouraged KDE fan

Discouraged KDE fan — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:11:51 +0000

No disrespect, but why is Adept still so ugly? I thought the usability team had a crack at it. The massive window filled with only a string or progress bar and all empty panel otherwise just screams hackery.