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Installing applications using Kubuntu’s Adept Installer

by Clair on August 16th, 2007

Users who are not familiar with Kubuntu’s Adept Installer would find it weird that some of the applications they want to install are greyed out and could not be installed. Personally, I am not really used to it either but it’s actually a matter of updating your sources.list file. You could do that via command line if you’re comfortable with that. On the command line you have to be root or you’d have to do a sudo.

if you are root: # apt-get update

if you are not root: $ sudo apt-get update

If you’re new to using Kubuntu and you were too excited to install applications after installing your basic system, you have to do other things first. One is to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file so you could have other sources of packages for your applications. Otherwise, you’re limited to the ones in the main repository. Adding the universe and the multiverse would be important because you might need the types of applications which are not included in the main repository.

Step 1: Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file as root. Then, do an apt-get update.
Step 2: Run Adept Installer again and see how it goes. You should be able to see more choices of applications and those that were greyed out earlier would be colored already.
Step 3: Select the application you want and install.

There’s a detailed guide by Manchicken on using Adept Installer. I think that those unfamiliar with Adept will find it handy.

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