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3. Onscreen Fundamentals

Kpackage has two panels. The left panel displays a tree of the installed packages, the left panel displays information on the installed packages..

3.1 Drag and Drop

Kpackage makes use of the KDE Drag and Drop protocol. This means that you can darg and drop packages from the Desktop or kfm or some remote ftp site.

3.2 Managing Installed Packages

When kpackage is started normally (that is it has not been invoked via drag and drop and has not been given any parameters) it
enters `Management Mode'. This mode allows the following:

3.3 Installing a Package

To install a package you can You will then enter 'install mode'. In this mode you can: RPM and DEBian packages are handled slightly differently, RPM pages are installed by the kpackage program while with DEBian packages the DPKG utility is invoked in a KVT window (this allows interaction if required).
 
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