Installing in Kubuntu

[jbaerbock]

One thing I noticed that most people, myself included, find a turn off about linux is how difficult it is to install anything. Usualy we have to unpack a .tar.gz file (easy part) and then make the file, or compile it or something else. Why not make self installers for these programs? Or does anyone know of a gui installer that will take care of the operations without having to mess with the terminal? Such as I am trying to instal two linux games which require libraries I have never heard of, dont know where to get them or how to install them. Why not simply click on a setup file and wala program installed. I really love Linux so don't get me wrong but this is one thing that it rather annoying me. So any help would be appreciated.

[arochester]

Re: Installing in Kubuntu

Synaptic Package Manager is quite good. What are the two games you are trying to install called?

[jbaerbock]

Re: Installing in Kubuntu

Neverball and Doomsday engine (supposedly has doom, and other fps in it redon for linux). Thanks for the swift answer .

[jbaerbock]

Re: Installing in Kubuntu

Also just got Synaptic, already have adept. Most of what I have downloaded and wish to install is not on their lists, if there a way to get them to install things I download that aren't on their lists? Thanks.

[XstatyK]

Re: Installing in Kubuntu

The doomsday looks cool so I will look into that myself but as for the neverball just open up a terminal called Konsole located under the system menu and type the following

sudo apt-get install neverball

Adding
This might be of some help to you and although it says ubuntu it works for Kubuntu
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/

[jbaerbock]

Re: Installing in Kubuntu

Says E: Couldn't find package.

[XstatyK]

Re: Installing in Kubuntu

Not sure why that is, I just installed it because it looks fun and I haven't had any problems. Cool game btw.
You might have to enable some repositories which can be done through adept or synaptic.
Here is my list so that you may compare them to yours

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main

#AUTOMATIX REPOS START

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu edgy-commercial main

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-updates universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy universe multiverse
#beryl
deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ edgy main

#AUTOMATIX REPOS END

[jbaerbock]

Re: Installing in Kubuntu

Yeah thats what I just did, didn't have them on before. I'll try it again once I get to my computer again. Thanks for all the tips and help, love the swift advice from the Kubuntu community.