apt & sudo question

[jeff]

On Mon, 16 May 2005 19:43:10 +0200
Andreas Mueller <amu at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure if you know, what you're doing, or you try to do.
> If you installed Kubuntu, you need a Kubuntu DVD. Kubuntu is also
> Debian based, means, this is a forc from Debian, we changed depends,
> use other libs and so on, that Kubuntu matches for us. The DVD your're
> looking for it's a Debian pure, in this case useless. Kubuntu use
> KDE 3.4 while Debian use KDE 3.3

Hi Andreas,
I've got a Kubuntu CD which is a great distribution but many
development tools are missing.  Most of the tools need standard
libraries and don't care about KDE or other modifications to
Kubuntu.  For example, I use the "insight" debugger and the only
distribution that puts it thier dvd is Suse.  Anyway, my fantasy
is to install Kubuntu and then load about 200 megabytes of
development tools from another source (possibly a standard
debian archive on dvd).  The debian/Kubuntu world is new to
me and I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is.  People
talk about apt but there are other installers the work with
.deb files?

 all the best, jeff