Friend Installs Kubuntu via wubi, no adept installed

[Dazed_75]

Ok, I decided this was more interesting than playing World of Warcraft
tonight (sick, huh?).  So here is what I did:

- Downloaded the Kubuntu 9.04 32 bit .iso via a torrent & made a CD from it
- Installed XP Home on a test box
- Put the CD in the optical drive and selected to install within windows
(wubi install)
- Shortly after booting into kubuntu I was notified 4 updates were available
- Verified that apt-get, etc and aptitude were both installed
- Looked through the KDE menus and found Applications/System/Software
Management (which showed a description of "KpackageKit") which also showed
the updates.  It also had Software Sources and add/remove functions.
- Clicked on the notification and after entering my password watched it do
the updates.

In conclusion, perhaps the frustration was from someone expecting ubuntu
components or perhaps the KDE 4+ folks just moved enough stuff he did not
see what he was looking for.  The fact remains, it all seems to work
properly.

Larry

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wubi is fantastic and works superbly in most systems and for most people.
> Frankly, I've seen so many people happy with it in the last two ubuntu
> releases I have a hard time seeing where anyone would say it sucks.  We did
> two such installs Saturday at the installfest and both went without a hitch.
>
> Where I suspect your failure is is the people who repackaged Kubuntu.  I
> will try to find time to verify this but the last few days have made my
> schedule quite difficult this week.
>
> I freely admit that 3 releases ago it had trouble in a number of less
> common situations.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wubi sucks.  Jeez.  Installing a stable operating system from within
>> an UNstable one is insanity.  It's Ubuntu's worst idea.  Shuttleworth
>> will eventually figure it out, meanwhile do a real install - dual-boot
>> if you must.
>>
>> Jim
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