To install a package you can
locate the package you wish to install in Konqueror, drag it onto a running copy of KPackage
click on a package file in Konqueror and start a new copy of KPackage
use on the menu items in KPackage
selecting an available package in the package tree
For a selected package, use the buttons in the right panel, the button will fetch the package from a remote source and display detailed information, the button pops up the installation window.
For marked packages, use the button on the left panel, which pops up the install window.
Install Dialog
The install window lists the packages to be selected to be installed in a panel in the top left, if Debain APT is being used the packages needed to satisfy any dependencies are also shown. Below this there are a set of check boxes which set options for the install program. For RPM packages the options are:
- Will upgrade any already installed package.
- Install the packages even if they replace files from other, already installed, packages.
- Verify dependencies.
- Don't do the install
For Debian APT the options are:
- Fetch the packages but don't install them.
- Only use packages that are locally available
- Do the install even if some packages are missing
- Ignore holds that have been placed on packages
- Ignore any requirements that the packages must be signed.
- Answer yes for any questions the install program would ask.
- Don't do the install
The button will start the actual install. Normally the install window will be deleted after a successful install but if the check box is selected the window will stay around.
The panel on the right is an integrated terminal window in which the installation programs are run, for interactive installation programs the interaction is done in this window.
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