No Manage Repositories in adept installer

[Hubert Figuiere]

Binary package hint: adept-installer

Add/Remove Program (based on adept) does not allow to enable universe. The problem is that it does allow to search in "unsupported" aka universe.

One has to go to System > Adept and "manage repositories"

Version: KUbuntu 6.06 from CD.

[Jonathan Jesse (jjesse)]

I was not able to confirm this bug. Could you please make sure your system is up to date and try to replicate the problem. The "bug" is w/ Adept and not add/remove programs.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

I see what he saying. When you goto Kmenu>Add/Remove Programs. If the Universe or Multiverse repositories aren't enabled, then you can't search them. I don't know if I would classify this a bug, or a whishlist item. It is a valid point though. I don't use the Add/Remove Programs, so I never noticed this before. I can confirm that it does happen, but is it a bug?

[Jonathan Jesse (jjesse)]

Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages
OS: Linux

Add/Remove Program (based on adept) does not allow to enable universe. The problem is that it does allow to search in "unsupported" aka universe.

One has to go to System > Adept and "manage repositories"

Version: KUbuntu 6.06 from CD.

Taken from https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/adept/+bug/52775 and created here. I think this is more of a wishlist item then a bug, marked this as upstream on launchpad.

[Frode M. Døving (frode)]

If I understand this correctly,
Add/Remove programs can not search anything not available to APT.
Universe needs to be enabled in order to search it offline.
The alternative is to go to packages.ubuntu.com and search.

[Hubert Figuiere (hub)]

the alternative is NOT acceptable because it does not allow installing.

(I'm thinking about users here, because I never use GUI for that)

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

The bug is that there is no manage repositories menu entry in Adept Installer. One shouldn't have to go to a different program (the manager) to enable software repositories.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

The bug is that there is no manage repositories menu entry in Adept Installer. One shouldn't have to go to a different program (the manager) to enable software repositories.

[Michael D. Stemle, Jr. (manchicken)]

two things...

1) I think this is solved with the inclusion of software-properties

2) While I agree on the poor user experience, this is still a wishlist and not a bug.

[mornfall (mornfall)]

Yes, repository management needs to be added to Adept in general. If it is done well enough, it should be accessible in all Adept components, I'd say.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

You can access the Kubuntu repositories tool from Installer with Adept 3.0.

[adaptee (adaptee)]

Adept has been in the unmaintained state for a few years. Use muon[1] as replacement .

[1] https://launchpad.net/muon