[Wlug] APT install question
Gregory Avedissian
gma2006 at verizon.net
Sat Dec 30 14:18:35 EST 2006
Andy Stewart wrote:
>
> I prefer KDE over Gnome and that's why I'm giving Kubuntu a test drive.
>
I prefer KDE over Gnome, too, and what I've done with 'buntu is install
the basic Ubuntu, and then add kde through apt-get. I seem to recall that
doing it this way is one of the ways to enable the root account. (I could
be wrong on that - it's been awhile.)
>
> I have used the smart package manager on SuSE (when the badly broke YaST
> on OpenSuSE 10.1). I like it but didn't know the package name for
> *Ubuntu. I have been using the Adept package manager, but I"ll install
> Smart and give it a try.
>
To find package names:
sudo apt-cache search <keyword>
Have fun!
Greg
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