The K Desktop Environment

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4. Menus

This describes the Kpackage menus.

It is possible to set the keyboard shortcuts associated with menu entries by selecting the menu entry and then typing the single quote key ' followed by the key to be bound to the menu item (for KDE versions post 1.1)

4.1 File menu

The items in this File menu are:

Open

Brings up file selector for local and ftp files

Open URL

Allows the entry of a URL for either local, ftp or http files

Open Recent

A list of the most recently open package files

Find Package

Search the installed package list for a package who's name contains the entered string

Find File

Produces a list of packages that contain the entered file name, selecting a line will display the information on that package. It behaves slightly differently for RPM (where you have to enter the exact file name) and DEB (where you can enter a regular expression).

Reload

Reread the package data and rebuild the package tree

Quit

Quit

4.2 Packages menu

The items in the Packages menu are:

Expand Tree

Fully expands the packages tree

Collapse Tree

Collapses the package tree so that only the tree structure is shown

Clear selected

Unselects all the packages

Multiple Selection Mode

Single Selection Mode/ Toggles between the mode where only and single package at a time can be selected and the mode where many packages can be selected

4.3 Options menu

The items in the Options menu are:

Options

Package Display

This determines which packages are displayed in the package tree, whether all packages, just the new ones, just the updated ones or just the installed ones.

Directory Cache

Whether to cache remote (FTPed) directories and Package files.

Package files

Whether to cache remote package files that have been fetched

misc

Verity file list

If set the list of files in the package is checked to see if they are actually installed

Read information from all local package files

If set all the files from a (local) package directory are read instead of just using the files names, this is slower but shows more information.

Keys

The standard KDE dialog for setting shortcut keys (KDE post 1.1)

Location of uninstalled packages

Location RPM

This provides for specifying the location of package directories (either local or FTP), each line includes an entry where the URL or name of the directoryirectory can be typed in, a "..." button that brings up a file selector and a "Use" radio button that determines whether the directory given in the line is to be used or not. The multiple panels are just for convenience.

Location DEB

The first two panels work the same way as for RPMs, the others allow the specification of a Debian distribution and the location of Packages files in that distribution.

Location SLACK

For Slackware packages there are three types of panels

  • The first panel is the location of a PACKAGES.TXT file which is used to provided information on the installed packages
  • The next four panels can be used to specify the location of distributions with the directory tree containing the .tgz files and the location of the corresponding PACKAGES.TXT file
  • The last two panels are for directories that do not have a corresponding PACKAGES.TXT file
Hide Tool Bar

Activate/Deactivate the tool bar

Save Settings Now

Save the current options setting immediately instead of when Kpackage exits.

4.4 Cache menu

The items in the Cache menu are:

Clear Package Directory Cache

Delete cached copies of remote package directories and Packages files

Clear Package Cache

Delete cached copies of remote package files that have been fetched

4.5 Toolbar

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