On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 11:27 PM Marc Haber <mh+debian-...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > on my new notebook I am trying to do more administrative tasks in > graphical tools to be able to answer beginners' questions in the unix > user group. That also means package management, which I usually do with > apt on the command line. > > KDE Discover seems to not quite the package management tool I am looking > for. It only says that my Debian unstable offers like 2000 packages for > installation (the notebook alone has 2400 packages installed), it says > that the installation only has 240 packages installed. And it cannot > find the firefox browser. > > (1) Am I holding KDE Discover wrong?
Hi Marc, there is some work to be done to get KDE/discover run properly and update all the software catalogues while recognizing your sources.list. This resulted in more MB to be downloaded for all my repository-information - when using/checked with apt. But I never installed software via KDE/discover - just displayed what software is available. Maybe, I can share my mini-howto when I am in front of my Debian system. IIRC apt-config-xxx and packagekit needs to be adapted. When I was using mobile network connection I disabled some settings in apt-config-xxx to reduce the amount of (repository) data which is required by KDE/discover to build the software-catalogues. > (2) If KDE Discover is not what I am looking for, what is the > recommended way to do package management, install, deinstall, > configure, purge Debian packages from the Debian archive > on a KDE system? > /me relies on good old apt for software-upgrades. BR, -Sedat-
