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[Derek Broughton]

Sylviane et Perry White wrote:

> On Monday 10 December 2007 14:34:18 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
>> > I installed dovecot, from sources because I couldn't find it in
>> > KUbuntu's repos (was in Ubuntu's though but I didn't dare try that)
>>
>> Whoa!  What repos are you using that you think are Kubuntu but not
>> Ubuntu?? There is no such thing as a "Kubuntu" repository.
> 
> I'm a bit new on Kubuntu and havent mastered completely the
> apt-get/adept/aptitude/synaptic stuff (was using "YAST" and binaries
> before)
> 
> I know it isn't wise to alternate between synaptic and adept (although
> both are graphical layers for apt-get) 

There's no reason you need to stick to adept.  I _think_ you'll get
different results between adept and aptitude, and synaptic and aptitude,
but they should give the same results as each other and apt-get.  The only
reason aptitude is different is the default options it runs with (it
installs all "recommends" as well as dependencies).

> so I try to stick with adept. 

Fine - but you have to use the right adept! 

There is adept-manager and adept-installer.  adept-installer is the stupid
little brother :-(  It explicitly only presents you a subset of the actual
installable programs.  I can't say more because I have _never_ used it.

> I also read that integration of gnome programs in kde made progress,
> meaning some programs may no work or not perfectly (hope I got it right so
> far).

No, I'm sure they really mean _integration_ - the ability of the program to
use kio slaves and _look_ like a KDE app when run in KDE.  Otherwise, Gnome
programs do the same thing when run under KDE as they do under Gnome - but
they don't _look_ the same as KDE apps.

> That explains why, having no problem finding dovecot with Synaptic 
> but failing using adept_installer, I took that as an indication dovecot
> was intentionally not included in what adept-installer offered.

You're right, it's intentional - but it is available from adept-manager.   

> Your comment makes me belive I have not enabled the same repos for adept
> as for synaptic (right?) (I still have to find out how, I may have to do
> some homework first  ;-)    )
> 
>>  Makes me suspect you're not using a blessed source...

Sorry, that was a brain-fart on my end, because the only way to have adept
and synaptic use different repositories is for one or both to specify a
different config file.  By default, they both get their sources
from /etc/apt/sources.list*
-- 
derek