adept manager falies with Ibex Alpha 4

[dboosalis]

Remvoing /var/tmp/kdecache-david got around the gui stopping for the package manager, now I get a empty window coming up.


I guess there a not of packages to install anyway. I was hoping to install emacs, but trying to do so form the command line resulted in no such package being found


david@lgr:~$ sudo adept_manager
kapture::PkgSystem::PkgSystem()
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-david" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-video-v4l
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
libc6
debconf
xkb-data
x11-xkb-utils
mdetect
libgl1-mesa-dri
udev
laptop-detect
xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-video-v4l
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
libc6
debconf
xkb-data
x11-xkb-utils
mdetect
libgl1-mesa-dri
udev
laptop-detect
KCrash: Application 'adept_manager' crashing...
KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.

[enceladus]

Why don't you install Synaptic Package Managerł

sudo install synaptic

Then, go to System > Synaptic.
Then click on Reload, then on Update, then on Apply and there you go.

Better than Adept.

Cheers

[caryb]

The adept problem has been around since the beta's of intrepid! as for
Better than Adept. Thats very subjective! I'm using Synaptic but much prefer Adept. I installed adept 3 to have a look but it's very empty at the moment & they have gone way too much like Synaptic in functionality :'(


2 bobs worth Cary

[claydoh]

Adept, which is a QT3/KDE3 app is definitely borked in Intrepid, and while there is a very alpha version of Adept3 for KDE4, it is not really usefull enough for most, other than to test. Definitely missing a lot of things at the moment.

Synaptic is installable, but in Itrepid/kde4, it has some minor issues for me, such as the gui freezing after installing packages (can't tell if the package installation completed or not) and I have to kill it.

So I stick mostly wth the cli at the moment, which I have been doing with all my alpha testing over the past releases. You can use the command
apt-cache search "foo"
to search for packages that way as well as using http://packages.ubuntu.com until either adept or synaptic are more stable/useful.

Oh, yeah, I don't recommend kpackage at all, it was kinda crap back in the day (though on an rpm based system) and still seems to be that way. But of course ymmv :)

[Rog131]

There are lot of package managers / apt frontends > FAQ: Package Managers (http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3092288.0)

One of them (aptitude) started in the konsole:

sudo aptitude