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:
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Seeing which packages are installed.
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Seeing which files are included in an installed
package, selecting a file from the list will open it using the file manager
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Verifying files in a package, files that exist
are marked with a tick, files that don't with a cross.
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Uninstalling a package.
3.3 Installing a Package
To install a package you can
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locate the package you wish to install in kfm, drag it onto a running copy
of kpackage
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click on a package file in kfm and start a new copy of kpackage
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use on the open menu items in kpackage
You will then enter 'install mode'. In this mode you can:
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See information about an uninstalled package.
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List the files that will be installed.
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Install the package.
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).