What No GIMP

[jlittle]

Muon, synaptic, apt, aptitude, ...

Presumably they all read the same database, so the results should be the same

Very occasionally in breakage states aptitude gives different results to the others, and so can fix things when the others can't. Or at least it did the last time I needed it, several years ago.

Regards, John Little

[anonprivate]

No it's not a problem, and the OS won't allow you to use more than one at a time. Technically, I have five: Synaptic, Muon, apt, dpkg, and aptitude

Oh, yeah, and Discover, so six - sort of ...

Presumably they all read the same database, so the results should be the same

[jglen490]

I now have gimp installed.via the package manager

Originally, I tried to add the line via kate, but it would not save. i thought that kate could be used to edit system files. I suppose that I should have used nano.

Is it problematic to have two package managers on a pc?

Thanks

No it's not a problem, and the OS won't allow you to use more than one at a time. Technically, I have five: Synaptic, Muon, apt, dpkg, and aptitude

Oh, yeah, and Discover, so six - sort of ...

[GreyGeek]

I've moved on from Muon. It's not a hateful application, but after experiencing no reaction from changing a query and GG's comment about there seeming to be an inefficient sort algorithm, I've started using Synaptic and am well satisfied.

I did the same thing.
Waiting for that bubble sort to finish (up to 90 seconds!) every time I did a fresh search, got to be too much.

[chimak111]

Kate should work. It should prompt you for a password at save.

Poster's on 16.04. Was that feature available then? I don't remember.

[SpecialEd]

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Originally, I tried to add the line via kate, but it would not save. i thought that kate could be used to edit system files. I suppose that I should have used nano.

Kate should work. It should prompt you for a password at save.

Is it problematic to have two package managers on a pc?

Thanks

No, it shouldn't be a problem.

[anonprivate]

Well, you can add the line to the sources.list file and then do "sudo apt update"
OR,
you can wonder through the WWW looking for a recent deb package to download that is compatible with the version of Kubuntu you are running, download it and then run "dpkg -i whatever" against it and hope you don't have to go wondering around for uninstalled dependencies, again, and make sure they match the deb package you downloaded and the Kubuntu version you are running. Rinse and repeat until you get what you are looking for.

Repositories make things simple and reduce the chances of installing an infected package.

I now have gimp installed.via the package manager

Originally, I tried to add the line via kate, but it would not save. i thought that kate could be used to edit system files. I suppose that I should have used nano.

Is it problematic to have two package managers on a pc?

Thanks

[anonprivate]

you can do this with Muon ,,,,,,,

open Muon click settings , click "configure software sources" you will be asked for your password , on the first tab of the window that will open the second entry down with a check box in front of it will be the universe repo , tick the checkbox and click close , Muon will do a update of the software , after it's done check for Gimp once again.

VINNY

Spot on.

I noticed that the universe box was already ticked, but, on closing, I saw gimp in the archive.

Best wishes.

[Beerislife]

Strange, Gimp 2.8 was available immediately in the repo on a fresh install of KDE Neon. I'm running Gimp 2.10 though from:

https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgu...ve/ubuntu/gimp

[vinnywright]

I've moved on from Muon. It's not a hateful application, but after experiencing no reaction from changing a query and GG's comment about there seeming to be an inefficient sort algorithm, I've started using Synaptic and am well satisfied.

the OP stated that he uses Muon , that is why I referenced it ,, you can do the same thing in Synaptic , but their it's , settings>Repositories.

VINNY

[jglen490]

I've moved on from Muon. It's not a hateful application, but after experiencing no reaction from changing a query and GG's comment about there seeming to be an inefficient sort algorithm, I've started using Synaptic and am well satisfied.

[vinnywright]

Do you man adding the following line to sources.list

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages

Surely there must be a better way to access the universe

you can do this with Muon ,,,,,,,

open Muon click settings , click "configure software sources" you will be asked for your password , on the first tab of the window that will open the second entry down with a check box in front of it will be the universe repo , tick the checkbox and click close , Muon will do a update of the software , after it's done check for Gimp once again.

VINNY

[jglen490]

I just looked in Synaptic and Gimp shows up, of course I'm on 18.04 and my /etc/apt/sources.list shows

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security multiverse

[GreyGeek]

Do you man adding the following line to sources.list

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages

Surely there must be a better way to access the universe

Well, you can add the line to the sources.list file and then do "sudo apt update"
OR,
you can wonder through the WWW looking for a recent deb package to download that is compatible with the version of Kubuntu you are running, download it and then run "dpkg -i whatever" against it and hope you don't have to go wondering around for uninstalled dependencies, again, and make sure they match the deb package you downloaded and the Kubuntu version you are running. Rinse and repeat until you get what you are looking for.

Repositories make things simple and reduce the chances of installing an infected package.

[anonprivate]

You can look in /etc/apt/sources to see if is listed, and add it if it's not there.

Do you man adding the following line to sources.list

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages

Surely there must be a better way to access the universe